Learning Vue.js 2

By Olga Filipova

Instead of waiting till I completely read a book since I do not have that much time to read an entire book with in a week; I decided to break down my reviews to reports. To start, I am currently reading Learning Vue.js 2 by Olga Filipova from Packt Publishing. I got this book from their daily free book giveaways, and along with hundreds of others.

In this book, Olga will teach Vue.js in different aspects of the JavaScript framework, and as she takes you through each section you are building along two, separate apps: a grocery list, and a Podomoro Timer which is basically a work and rest alarm. Unlike some other Packt books, I rather like this approach in teaching people how to learn a language or framework and that is building on a project unlike the “cookbook” aspect where you have simple, multiple projects that is one and done after each chapters. Granted, there are Packt books that specify it will be a cookbook.

When it comes to Packt books, I do not find them that engaging, and even with the author outgoing personality I do have a hard time paying attention as I read as I tend to think a little too much about each of the subjects. That might be a good thing, but if I want to learn each of the topics then it is best to pay attention. Plus, I have been dabbling with Vue.js previously, and the reading material is redundant, and I am not learning that much. I might pick up a specific detail once in a while, but it is review.

I am covering right now is Vuex, or the Vue.js store. This is where you can store the information about the application, and the current environment. I’ll admit, I really should pay attention to this section as I am currently working on this aspect with my Ionic 4 project, and I am still not getting the subtle definitions of getters and actions. I am still reading this chapter as of this posting.

Previous chapters covered the Vue directives like v-if, v-show, and v-for, and when I started learning Vue.js; I already get how they worked with my experience with Ionic’s own version of the modified Angular directives. Each of the mainstream frameworks such as Angular, Vue, and maybe React and Ember (I have no experience in either of those two) you can easily translate one syntax to another syntax much like any other programming language. If anything, you just have to learn the unique caveats that separate each of the frameworks and/or languages.

Please feel free to post a comment about this report; perhaps a better definition of Vuex would be nice as I feel my interpretation is not fully correct.