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Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices Build enterprise-ready, modular Vue.js applications with Vuex and Nuxt

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839792
Length 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paul Halliday Paul Halliday
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Vue.js Principles and Comparisons FREE CHAPTER 2. Proper Creation of Vue Projects 3. Writing Clean and Lean Code with Vue 4. Vue.js Directives 5. Secured Communication with Vue.js Components 6. Creating Better UI 7. HTTP and WebSocket Communication 8. Vue Router Patterns 9. State Management with Vuex 10. Testing Vue.js Applications 11. Optimization 12. Server-Side Rendering with Nuxt 13. Patterns

Data properties


When we add a variable to our data object, we're essentially creating a reactive property that updates the view any time it changes. This means that, if we had a data object with a property named firstName, that property would be re-rendered on the screen each time the value changes:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
 <title>Vue Data</title>
 <script src="https://unpkg.com/vue"></script>
</head>
<body>
 <div id="app">
  <h1>Name: {{ firstName }}</h1>
  <input type="text" v-model="firstName">
 </div>

 <script>
 const app = new Vue({
  el: '#app',
  data: {
   firstName: 'Paul'
  }
 });
 </script>
</body>
</html>

This reactivity does not extend to objects added to our Vue instance after the instance has been created outside of the data object. If we had another example of this, but this time including appending another property such as fullName to the instance itself:

<body...
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