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Building Vue.js Applications with GraphQL

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800565074
Pages 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Author (1):
Heitor Ramon Ribeiro Heitor Ramon Ribeiro
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Data Binding, Events, and Computed Properties 2. Components, Mixins, and Functional Components 3. Setting Up Our Chat App - AWS Amplify Environment and GraphQL 4. Creating Custom Application Components and Layouts 5. Creating the User Vuex Module, Pages, and Routes 6. Creating Chat and Message Vuex, Pages, and Routes 7. Transforming Your App into a PWA and Deploying to the Web 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating functional components

The beauty of functional components is their simplicity. They are stateless components without any data, computed properties, or even life cycles. They are just render functions that are called when the data that has been passed changes.

You may be wondering how this can be useful. Well, a functional component is a perfect companion for UI components that don't need to keep any data inside them, or visual components that are just rendered components that don't require any data manipulation.

As the name implies, they are similar to function components, and they have nothing more than the render function. They are a stripped-down version of a component that's used exclusively for performance rendering and visual elements.

Getting ready

The prerequisite for this recipe is Node.js 12+.

The Node.js global objects that are required for this recipe are as follows:

  • @vue/cli
  • @vue/cli-service-global

To complete this recipe, we will use our Vue...

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