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Joran Quinten
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Joran Quinten

Joran Quinten's passion involves getting people to love technology and getting technology to play nice. With over a decade of experience in developing and designing software, he has built up a broad background in development and architecture. He loves sharing knowledge and has been invited to speak at several tech events. Joran graduated from Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven in 2010. Currently, he works for Jumbo Supermarkten, a national grocery chain where he is the technical lead of the design system team and acts as an ambassador for the tech department. He is passionate about mentoring and coaching junior developers. Joran lives close to Eindhoven with his wife, son and daughter.
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The Superhero connection

We want to retrieve data from the Marvel Comics API from different components in our application. A good pattern for doing this is by creating a Vue composable. A Vue composable is a proven pattern for using and reusing logic throughout your application. We’ll create a folder called composables in the src folder and create a file called marvelApi.ts.

You can import the types from the example repository (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-Real-world-Web-Applications-with-Vue.js-3/blob/main/04.marvel/src/types/marvel.ts).

These types are mainly contracts with the API. Feel free to take a look at them. I created them by ingesting the results from the API and defining the types.

We’ll start with an asynchronous function that fetches the data from the API from the comics endpoint and returns a promise of the response. We’re going to expand the functionality gradually. Add a new composable function called useComics to the file...

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Joran Quinten

Joran Quinten's passion involves getting people to love technology and getting technology to play nice. With over a decade of experience in developing and designing software, he has built up a broad background in development and architecture. He loves sharing knowledge and has been invited to speak at several tech events. Joran graduated from Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven in 2010. Currently, he works for Jumbo Supermarkten, a national grocery chain where he is the technical lead of the design system team and acts as an ambassador for the tech department. He is passionate about mentoring and coaching junior developers. Joran lives close to Eindhoven with his wife, son and daughter.
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