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Building Forms with Vue.js
Building Forms with Vue.js

Building Forms with Vue.js: Patterns for building and scaling complex forms with great UX

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Building Forms with Vue.js

Getting started using Bootstrap

Let's begin by adding Bootstrap 4 as a dependency to our project, so we won't have to think about design and can focus on the functionality of our forms. 

Bootstrap is a popular open source toolkit that gives us some predefined classes and styles so that we can make our app look nice without having to worry much about styles.

To get Bootstrap installed and set up for our project, follow these steps:

  1. Open up the Terminal to your project's folder, and install the dependency with the following command:
> npm install bootstrap
  1. Awesome! This adds the package to our node_modules folder and package.json. Now, go ahead and import the necessary styles into src/main.js. Use the following command to do so:
import 'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css';

We're not going to be using any of Bootstrap's scripts, so...

Actually writing some code

All right, enough setup—let's write some code! We will start with a very simple form so that our users can fill out their personal information. Nothing crazy, just baby steps.

We are going to add three fields to our form. A firstName input, a lastName input, and an email input. Finally, we will add a Submit button.

Remember back when we installed Bootstrap? This is where it comes out to shine. All of the classes that we are going to add to our markup will get magically styled by Bootstrap.

Make these changes to your App.vue file:

<template>
<div id="app" class="container py-4">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-12">
<form>
<div class="form-group">
<label>First Name:</label>
<input type="text...

Binding the inputs to local state

The purpose of forms in a web application is to capture some user input and be able to do something with it. In our example, we still don't have any way to access the user's input with JavaScript for our Vuetiful plans—so, let's start with that.

Please note that you do not necessarily have to wrap up your form's data inside a secondary object, but, I have found it to be cleaner—especially when you start adding other data properties to your component, which may not necessarily be related to your form.

Create a new data property on the instance of your App.vue file. Inside of it, we're going to declare a form object, which will, in turn, hold a property for each one of our inputs:

<script>
export default {
name: 'app',
data() {
return {
form: {
firstName: &apos...

Submitting the form's data

As it currently is, the form is getting submitted to the same URL when you click the Submit button. This is not Vue magic—this is just default <form> behavior, especially since we didn't specify an action attribute on the tag.

In most real-world scenarios, you'll want to perform a couple of operations before submitting a form. The most common would be validating some inputs, or perhaps even overriding the default submit behavior with an asynchronous call using a library such as Axios. 

First, we need to make sure that, when the user clicks the Submit button, we prevent the form from going out on its own. We also want to bind a new method to it being clicked.

Let's bind to the form's submit event first. Remember that we want to add the .prevent modifier to the event so that, when the form is submitted, the...

Bringing in Axios

The next step in our form is to actually have the form send the user's data to our servers. For the sake of example, the data is not going to be actually stored anywhere, but we will look at the steps of creating the POST call that most forms will use for transferring the data to an API or server endpoint.

Axios is a fantastic and popular library for sending and receiving data from servers. I personally recommend it as a go-to whenever you need to make any HTTP calls from your Vue apps. You can find the official GitHub page here: github.com/axios/axios.

Follow the next set of steps to get Axios ready on your project:

  1. Fire up your Terminal and run the following command:
> npm install axios
  1. We are going to need an API endpoint to make our calls to. Since we don't have any servers at hand—and to keep things really simple—we are...

Summary

In this chapter, we have taken the first steps to create a simple data-gathering form. We styled it using Bootstrap and we hooked into the <form> events. Finally, we used Axios and Mockoon to send the data to a dummy backend for testing.

In the next chapter, we will take a look into building reusable form components harnessing the power of Vue.

Bringing in Axios

The next step in our form is to actually have the form send the user's data to our servers. For the sake of example, the data is not going to be actually stored anywhere, but we will look at the steps of creating the POST call that most forms will use for transferring the data to an API or server endpoint.

Axios is a fantastic and popular library for sending and receiving data from servers. I personally recommend it as a go-to whenever you need to make any HTTP calls from your Vue apps. You can find the official GitHub page here: github.com/axios/axios.

Follow the next set of steps to get Axios ready on your project:

  1. Fire up your Terminal and run the following command:
> npm install axios
  1. We are going to need an API endpoint to make our calls to. Since we don't have any servers at hand—and to keep things really simple—we are going...

Summary

In this chapter, we have taken the first steps to create a simple data-gathering form. We styled it using Bootstrap and we hooked into the <form> events. Finally, we used Axios and Mockoon to send the data to a dummy backend for testing.

In the next chapter, we will take a look into building reusable form components harnessing the power of Vue.

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  • Understand the basics of form component composition
  • Scale and integrate your forms with libraries such as Vuex and Vuelidate
  • Convert any form into a self-generated schema-driven app

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Almost every web application and site out there handles user input in one way or another, from registration forms and log-in handling to registration and landing pages. Building Forms with Vue.js follows a step-by-step approach to help you create an efficient user interface (UI) and seamless user experience (UX) by building quick and easy-to-use forms. You’ll get off to a steady start by setting up the demo project. Next, you’ll get to grips with component composition from creating reusable form components through to implementing the custom input components. To further help you develop a convenient user input experience, the book will show you how to enhance custom inputs with v-mask. As you progress, you’ll get up to speed with using Vuelidate and Vuex to effectively integrate your forms. You’ll learn how to create forms that use global state, reactive instant user input validation and input masking, along with ensuring that they are completely schema-driven and connected to your application’s API. Every chapter builds on the concepts learned in the previous chapter, while also allowing you to skip ahead to the topics you’re most interested in. By the end of this book, you will have gained the skills you need to transform even the simplest form into a crafted user and developer experience with Vue.

Who is this book for?

If you are a developer with basic Vue experience who wants to enhance your forms, then this book is for you. No previous experience with any of the libraries used in the book is required.

What you will learn

  • Learn all about the basics of creating reusable form components with the Vue framework
  • Understand v-model and how it plays a role in form creation
  • Create forms that are completely powered and generated by a schema, either locally or from an API endpoint
  • Understand how Vuelidate allows for easy declarative validation of all your form's inputs with Vue's reactivity system
  • Connect your application with a Vuex-powered global state management
  • Use the v-mask library to enhance your inputs and improve user experience (UX)
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A Form in its Simplest Form Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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if you are trying to find some hints to build complex forms with vue and using ux, you will regret it. I will give away this book to some junior developer (and still no worthy for them), internt perhaps.dont buy it.
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