VueJS Practice #3 – Instance Management

VueJS Practice #3 – Instance Management

Wecome to the third VueJS Practice from German IT Academy. In this module we are going to make sure that we understand the properties and the life cycle of a Vue-Component (or instance).

Problem

Create a Component ProductDetail.vue with

  • a product object with random values for keys (id, price, name)
  • a text input-field „quantity“ with default value „0“
  • a text output calculating the total Costs (product price * quantity)

The Component must have following behavior:

  • Before the Component has been mounted, a text output „Specify Quantity.“ appears .
  • Data property „quantity“ is automatically updated with the input-field quantity.
  • After Quantity has been updated, a text output „Quantity updated.“ appears.

Hint

  • For the text above all Content: think about a data property that will be changed on certain Component life cycles.
  • Regarding the quantity and input-field: Do you remember what v-model is good for?
  • For the behavior part: the words „before“ and „after“ should be ringing a bell in your head. Take a look at the life cycle diagram of VueJS Components/Instances.

Solution

Let’s jump right into the code. Read it and see if you understand everything. If not, see the explanation after the code.

<template>
  <div class="ProductDetail">
      <h2>{{notification}}</h2>
      <p>
        Quantity: <input type="text" v-model="quantity"><br>
        Total Value: {{ totalValue }}$
      </p>
  </div>
</template>

<script>
export default {
  name: 'ProductDetail',

  data() {
    return {
      product: {
        id: 1,
        name: 'VueJS Certificate',
        price: 999
      },
      quantity: 0,
      // You could set 'notification' to desired default value 
      // instead doing it trough life cycle hook 
      notification: '' 
    }
  },

  computed: {
    totalValue: {
      get() {
        return this.quantity*this.product.price
      }
    }
  },

  beforeMount() {
    if(this.quantity==0) {
      this.notification = 'Please specify quantity!'
    }
  },

  updated() {
    if(this.quantity != 0) {
      this.notification = 'Quantity updated!'
    }
  }
}
</script>

<style scoped>
h2 {
  color:orange;
  border: 1px solid orange;
  width:50%;
  margin: 0 25% 0 25%;
}
input {
  height: 40px;
  width: 70px;
  font-size: 25px;
}
.ProductDetail {
  text-align: center;
}

.ProductDetail p {
  font-size: 30px;
}
</style>

Starting with unimportant: styles are just css styles. The {{notification}} in <template> can be either „Please specify quantity“ or „Quantity updated!“. The value of this data property changes with the life cycle hooks beforeMount() and updated(). The computed totalValue is an automatic way recalculate a value as soon as a data property (in our case quantity) changes. And then there are the data properties like products with dummy data. The input-field is mapped with quantity data property thanks to v-model.

This is how our result looks like. Simplistic and solves the Task/Problem at hand.

We hope you liked our VueJS Practice and learned something new. If you want to get a deeper insight into how VueJS works, consider enrolling in our VueJS Certificate Junior Course.

VueJS Practice – #1 Project Structure

VueJS Practice – #1 Project Structure

In VueJS 2 Practice we will explore a possible solution to a simple Problem: How to structure your Project, Folders, Assets and Single File Components?

Task

Create a VueJS Project/Folder Structure, that will contain Components for Detail views of products, users and payment steps. It’ll also contain a file with vuex state definitions. The project will also include API fetching methods, that should be accessible from every Single File Component.

Hints

  • Take a look at the official recommendation for VueJS Project Structure.
  • The API fetching methods need to be centrally available. What else is centrally available in your App?
  • Read the detailed VueJS Style-Guide

Solution

Your Project Structure would look like the one presented in the screenshot.

You have two VueJS Components „*Detail.vue“ and „*List.vue“ for each products, assets and users.

Your vuex state definitions are obviously in the „vuex-“ store.js file.

The hardest one was probably the placement of the API fetching methods. There is no right answer, but there is my answer that worked for me many times. Since your methods need to be available centrally, the vuex Store-Object in store.js is the perfect place for it. You combine the actions method in store.js Store-Object with your API fetching methods.

  actions: {
    getUsers(context) {
      const users = axios.get('https://myresturl.com/users/all')
      context.commit('increment', users)
    }
  }

Then you can call from every part of your Application the following line and execute your method. The best part of this structure is that you can directly insert your freshly fetched data into the Vuex Store.

this.$store.dispatch('getUsers')

And that is how you solve this VueJS 2 Practice . If you love VueJS like we do, please consider enrolling in our VueJS Certificate Course. It’s on-demand with lifetime access!

GITA Coach Andrey Bulezyuk

GITA Coach Andrey Bulezyuk

Andrey Bulezyuk is the founder of German IT Academy and a course creator. He mainly covers topics from Web Development (NodeJS, VueJS, Django etc.) to Data Science (Pandas, Numpy) and Machine Learning (Tensorflow, Keras, etc.).

What is VueJS?

He published a German book „Algorithmic Trading„, giving his readers the opportunity to learn how to code automatic trading systems for the stock market or the Forex. 

He has experience as a Backend and Frontend Developer. In his early years he worked on Web Projects as a Freelancer. Switched later to Financial Market System Developing. Currently employed as Machine Learning Engineer. 

He takes part in different projects and acts as a Co-Founder in different small start-ups. Andrey Bulezyuk was an employed Full-Stack Developer in Munich. Currently his duties do cover areas of Machine Learning and ETL.

Andrey Bulezyuk
Material Design with VueJS

Material Design with VueJS

Do you have a VueJS App or do you want to build a Vue App and you want to have a nice Material Design? 

WHAT IS MATERIAL DESIGN?

Material design is a guideline with predefined rules. Both describe how your application should look like in order to make your application look consistent and usable across all parts and devices.

HOW TO USE MATERIAL WITH VUEJS?

In order to implement Material Design in your VueJS Application you could create your own Components and style them according to the Material Principles.

We are going to explore the usage of third party tools inside our Vue App.

The quick and lightweight approach is to use some CSS Library like Material Boostrap (https://fezvrasta.github.io/bootstrap-material-design/). We will use the Vue Native approach and use the Vuetify Framework.

VUETIFY FOR MATERIAL VUEJS

Installation

In vue-cli3 User Interface find install Vuetify.

If your project cannot be used with vue-cli3, then go with „$ npm install vuetify

HOW TO BECOME A VUE.JS DEVELOPER?

We’ve got something for you. Check out the VueJS Junior Course. In this online course you will dive deep into how Components work and how you can quickly create a Vue.js Website.

ACTIVATION IN VUE SOURCE CODE

You have first import Vuetify in main.js. Then you tell your Vue App to use the freshly imported Vuetify.

USAGE OF VUETIFY COMPONENTS

Now that you have Vuetify in your Application, you can go ahead and start using all the Components that this big framework offers you. Where to begin? Start with the official library of all available Components (https://vuetifyjs.com/en/components/api-explorer).

Let’s use a simple Component called „Carousel“: <v-carousel>.

When you save this Component and open it in the browser, you should see something like this: