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Building Forms with Vue.js

You're reading from   Building Forms with Vue.js Patterns for building and scaling complex forms with great UX

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839213335
Length 108 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marina Mosti Hernandez Mosti Marina Mosti Hernandez Mosti
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting up the Demo Project FREE CHAPTER 2. A Form in its Simplest Form 3. Creating Reusable Form Components 4. Input Masks with v-mask 5. Input Validation with Vuelidate 6. Moving to a Global State with Vuex 7. Creating Schema-Driven Forms 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Lights, Vue, actions!

The third key part of Vuex is called actions. Actions are methods, just as mutations are, but they can perform asynchronous code within them. 

Actions receive two parameters as follows:

  • The first one is a context, which is an object that holds a reference to the state, the getters, and the ability to commit mutations and dispatch other actions.
  • The second (optional) parameter is user-defined; means that we can send extra information to our actions if we need it, but this can also be safely ignored.

A common pattern in Vuex-powered applications is to keep HTTP calls inside Vuex actions—that way, they can be dispatched by any component inside the application if they are needed. These HTTP calls usually modify or make use of the state, which is very convenient since we have this all available through the context. 

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