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Learning Vue.js 2

You're reading from   Learning Vue.js 2 Learn how to build amazing reactive web applications easily with Vue.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786469946
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Olga Filipova Olga Filipova
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Preface 1. Going Shopping with Vue.js FREE CHAPTER 2. Fundamentals – Installing and Using 3. Components – Understanding and Using 4. Reactivity – Binding Data to Your Application 5. Vuex – Managing State in Your Application 6. Plugins – Building Your House with Your Own Bricks 7. Testing – Time to Test What We Have Done So Far! 8. Deploying – Time to Go Live! 9. What Is Next? A. Solutions to Exercises

DefineProperty, getters, and setters


So, what happens with the data once passed to the Vue instance? What are these transformations that Vue applies to it so that it becomes so automatically bound to the View layer?

Let's analyze what would we do if we had, let's say, a string, and every time it changes we would like to apply some transformations to some DOM element. How would we apply the string-changing listener function? To what would we attach it? There is no such thing as var stringVar='hello';stringVar.onChange(doSomething) .

So we would probably wrap the string's value setting and getting in some sort of function that would do something, for example, updating the DOM each time the string was updated. How would you implement it? While you're thinking about it, I'll prepare a quick demo of something interesting.

Open the developer tools on your shopping list application. Let's code a little bit. Create an obj variable and another text variable:

var obj = {}; 
var text = ''; 

Let...

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