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Vue.js Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Vue.js Quick Start Guide Learn how to build amazing and complex reactive web applications easily using Vue.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789344103
Length 186 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ajdin Imsirovic Ajdin Imsirovic
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Vue FREE CHAPTER 2. Basic Concepts of Vue 2 3. Working with Vue-CLI, Components, Props, and Slots 4. Filters and Mixins 5. Making Your Own Directives and Plugins 6. Transitions and Animations 7. Using Vuex 8. Using Nuxt.js and Vue-Router 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding components, templates, and props

To begin, let's look at how to make a component in Vue. First, we specify the component, like this:

Vue.component('custom-article', {
template: `
<article>
Our own custom article component!<span></span>
</article>`
})
new Vue({
el: '#app'
})

A component is a block of code that we give a custom name. This custom name can be anything we come up with, and it's a single label for that entire block of code in the form of a custom HTML tag. In the previous example, we grouped the article and span tags and gave that custom tag the name of custom-article

Components are named using kebab-case.

The code for this component is available as a Codepen at https://codepen.io/AjdinImsirovic/pen/xzpOaJ.

Now, to create an instance of our component...

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