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Vue.js 2.x by Example

You're reading from   Vue.js 2.x by Example Example-driven guide to build web apps with Vue.js for beginners

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293464
Length 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mike Street Mike Street
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Vue.js 2. Displaying, Looping, Searching, and Filtering Data FREE CHAPTER 3. Optimizing your App and Using Components to Display Data 4. Getting a List of Files Using the Dropbox API 5. Navigating through the File Tree and Loading Folders from the URL 6. Caching the Current Folder Structure Using Vuex 7. Pre-Caching Other Folders and Files for Faster Navigation 8. Introducing Vue-Router and Loading URL-Based Components 9. Using Vue-Router Dynamic Routes to Load Data 10. Building an E-Commerce Store – Browsing Products 11. Building an E-Commerce Store – Adding a Checkout 12. Using Vue Dev Tools and Testing Your SPA

Passing data to your component – props

Having the balance as a component is great, but not very good if the balance is fixed. Components really come into their own when you add the ability to pass in arguments and properties via HTML attributes. In the Vue world, these are called props. Props can be either static or variable. In order for your component to expect these properties, you need to create an array on the component by using the props property.

An example of this would be if we wanted to make a heading component:

      Vue.component('heading', {
template: '<h1>{{ text }}</h1>',

props: ['text']
});

The component would then be used in the view like so:

      <heading text="Hello!"></heading>

With props, we don't need to define the text variable in the data object, as defining...

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