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ASP.NET Core 2 and Vue.js

You're reading from   ASP.NET Core 2 and Vue.js Full Stack Web Development with Vue, Vuex, and ASP.NET Core 2.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839464
Length 556 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stuart Ratcliffe Stuart Ratcliffe
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Preface 1. Understanding the Fundamentals 2. Setting Up the Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Started with the Project 4. Building Our First Vue.js Components 5. Building a Product Catalog 6. Building a Shopping Cart 7. User Registration and Authentication 8. Processing Payments 9. Building an Admin Panel 10. Deployment 11. Authentication and Refresh Token Flow 12. Server-Side Rendering 13. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding a getter to display the cart total

The final change we need to make to the shopping cart itself is to display the calculated grand total at the bottom. As it stands, we have no means of calculating it, so we're just displaying a hardcoded £0.00 value instead. To fix this, we'll add a Vuex getter to our store, which will calculate the total in a reusable function that we can use anywhere in our application.

Getters have a similar use case as computed properties: creating derived state for specific display purposes. In this case, the grand total of the shopping cart is the sum of a specific calculation on each cart item. We could store the grand total as a state property, but we'd then have the overhead of remembering to keep it up to date after any mutation has run that could alter that value. Instead, we derive the value from the cart items, and as they...

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