Vue.js from Zero to Production

Description

Go from your first Vue component to a deployed, production-grade application, without wading through a 1,000-page manual.

Vue.js from Zero to Production is a focused, practitioner’s guide to modern Vue 3. It follows one clear path. It starts with the reactivity system that everything else in Vue is built on. Then it covers components, composables and Pinia. Finally it moves into what separates a working demo from a real production app: routing, authentication, testing, TypeScript, performance, security and deployment.

Every code example is written the way it would appear in a real codebase, complete enough to run rather than trimmed into a fragment. Throughout the book, the focus is on why each approach is the right default, and when it isn’t.

What you’ll learn across 27 chapters:

• Foundations: what Vue really is, project setup with Vite, template syntax, single-file components, and the Options API vs. the Composition API
• Reactivity: how Vue 3’s reactivity system works; ref, reactive, computed and watch; props, emits and slots; and lifecycle hooks
• Data and interactivity: lists and keys, forms and v-model, composables, data fetching, and state management with Pinia
• Building real applications: Vue Router, dynamic and nested routes, navigation guards, working with APIs and backends, and authentication
• Production features: Nuxt with SSR and SSG, assets and SEO, testing Vue apps, and TypeScript with Vue
• Production engineering: performance optimization, debugging, security and deployment
• Career: becoming a professional Vue developer, plus a full Vue.js interview preparation chapter

The book is for developers who know HTML, CSS and modern JavaScript and want a thorough path into Vue. It also helps working Vue developers fill gaps around Pinia, Nuxt, TypeScript, testing and production. You don’t need any prior experience with Vue, React or Angular.