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Frontend Development Projects with Vue.js 3 - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803234991
Pages 628 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Authors (4):
Maya Shavin Maya Shavin
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Raymond Camden Raymond Camden
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Clifford Gurney Clifford Gurney
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Hugo Di Francesco Hugo Di Francesco
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction and Crash Course
2. Chapter 1: Starting Your First Vue Project 3. Chapter 2: Working with Data 4. Chapter 3: Vite and Vue Devtools 5. Part 2: Building Your First Vue App
6. Chapter 4: Nesting Components (Modularity) 7. Chapter 5: The Composition API 8. Chapter 6: Global Component Composition 9. Chapter 7: Routing 10. Chapter 8: Animations and Transitions 11. Part 3: Global State Management
12. Chapter 9: The State of Vue State Management 13. Chapter 10: State Management with Pinia 14. Part 4: Testing and Application Deployment
15. Chapter 11: Unit Testing 16. Chapter 12: End-to-End Testing 17. Chapter 13: Deploying Your Code to the Web 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with data

In the Options API, we use the data() method to initialize a component’s local state. By default, all the data properties received from data() are reactive, which can be overkill in many scenarios. Vue has introduced the ref() and reactive() functions, which allow us to decide which local states should be reactive and which shouldn’t be.

Setting a reactive local state with ref()

ref() is a function that accepts a single input parameter as the reactive data’s initial value and returns a reference object for the created reactive data state. We call this reference object a ref object. To start using ref(), you first need to import it from the vue package.

For example, we can create a reactive data called isLightOn, which accepts false as its initial value as follows:

import { ref } from 'vue';
const isLightOn = ref(false);

In the template section, you can access the value of isLightOn in the same way as before, as shown in...

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