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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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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

Caching download links on files

When the user is navigating around the document tree, the Dropbox API is still being queried more than necessary. This is because every time a file is displayed, we query the API to retrieve the download link. Extra API queries can be negated by storing the download link response in the cache and re-displaying the folder it is navigated back into.

Every time a file is displayed, a new component gets initialized using data from the store. We can use this to our advantage as it means we only need to update the component instance and then the result gets cached.

In your file component, update the API response to not only save the result on the link property of the data attribute but the on the file instance, f, as well. This will be stored as a new key, download_link.

When storing the data, rather than having two separate commands, we can combine them...

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