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Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices Build enterprise-ready, modular Vue.js applications with Vuex and Nuxt

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839792
Length 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paul Halliday Paul Halliday
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Vue.js Principles and Comparisons FREE CHAPTER 2. Proper Creation of Vue Projects 3. Writing Clean and Lean Code with Vue 4. Vue.js Directives 5. Secured Communication with Vue.js Components 6. Creating Better UI 7. HTTP and WebSocket Communication 8. Vue Router Patterns 9. State Management with Vuex 10. Testing Vue.js Applications 11. Optimization 12. Server-Side Rendering with Nuxt 13. Patterns

Slots


When we're composing our components, we should consider how they'll be used by ourselves and our team. Using slots allows us to dynamically add elements to the component with varying behavior. Let's see this in action by making a new playground project:

# Create a new Vue project
$ vue init webpack-simple vue-slots

# Navigate to directory
$ cd vue-slots

# Install dependencies
$ npm install

# Run application
$ npm run dev

We can then go ahead and create a new component named Message (src/components/Message.vue). We can then add something specific to this component (such as the following h1) as well as a slot tag that we can use to inject content from elsewhere:

<template>
 <div>
   <h1>I'm part of the Message component!</h1>
   <slot></slot>
 </div>
</template>

<script>
export default {}
</script>

If we then registered our component inside of App.vue and placed it inside of our template, we'd be able to add content inside of...

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