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Building Vue.js Applications with GraphQL

You're reading from   Building Vue.js Applications with GraphQL Develop a complete full-stack chat app from scratch using Vue.js, Quasar Framework, and AWS Amplify

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800565074
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Heitor Ramon Ribeiro Heitor Ramon Ribeiro
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Preface 1. Data Binding, Events, and Computed Properties 2. Components, Mixins, and Functional Components FREE CHAPTER 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 the Chat Vuex module on your application

To create a chat application, we need to create custom business rules for the chat part of the application. This part will hold all the logic between fetching new messages, sending messages, and starting new conversations between users.

In this recipe, we will create the Chat module in the application Vuex, where we will store all the messages between the logged user and other users, fetch new messages, send new messages, and start new conversations.

Getting ready

The prerequisites for this recipe are as follows:

  • The project from the previous recipe
  • Node.js 12+

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

  • @aws-amplify/cli
  • @quasar/cli

To start our Chat Vuex module, we will continue with the project that was created in the Creating GraphQL queries and fragments recipe.

How to do it...

For the creation of the Chat Vuex module, we will split our tasks into five parts: creating the state, mutations, getters, and actions...

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