Andrea Koutifaris - Vuex Quick Start Guide

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Andrea Koutifaris has a passion for programming, which he likes to say is in his DNA. At the age of thirteen, he began using his father's laptop to write his own programs. After graduating high school, he enrolled, without a second thought, at the University of Florence, Faculty of Computer Engineering. After being a Java developer for some years, Andrea gradually moved to frontend development, which is still his passion today. Having spent too much time fixing problems with messed up code, he is obsessed with good programming and test-driven development which, in his opinion, is the only way to write production-quality code.

Francesco Strazzullo is a frontend engineer and trainer for Extrategy. He loves to share what he learns in his job by writing on his blog or presenting some new talk at a conference or some local JavaScript user group. During his free time, he likes to relax by playing with his PlayStation or cooking.

Bogdan, a tech lead with a passion for UI technologies, has worked with JavaScript for the past 12 years, from the emergence of jQuery and Ajax to state-of-the-art solutions such as React, Angular, Ember.js, and Vue.js. When not fiddling with some new coding challenge, he spends his time watching sports or movies with friends and family.

Nowadays he channels most of his efforts into making we3interactive one of the most successful and creative startups in Cluj.

His passion for Vue.js pushed him to collaborate on great books such as Learning Vue.js, Vue.js 2 Cookbook, and Vue.js by Example.

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Vuex is a centralized state management architecture for building client-side web applications. It exploits the Vue.js reactivity system to perfectly integrate into Vue.js applications.

In this book, you will understand why centralized state management is important, how it works, and how you can empower your Vue.js applications with Vuex. Finally, you will learn about the Vuex plugin system and use it to enrich your Vuex applications.

This book targets Vue.js developers who want to understand and use Vuex centralized state management architecture in their applications.

, Rethinking User Interfaces with Flux, Vue, and Vuex , introduces the concepts of Flux architecture and the small differences in Vuex implementation.

, Implementing Flux Architecture with Vuex, teaches the core concepts of Vuex, and we learn how we can use them with small executable examples.

, Setting Up Development and Test Environment , shows how to use webpack and npm to prepare our environment for developing and testing a Vue/Vuex application.

, Coding the EveryNote App Using Vuex State Management , explains how to develop an application to take notes, using all the concepts from Vuex we've just learned. In addition, we use karma to test all the components of the application.

, Debugging Vuex Applications, says that even by testing every component, sometimes debugging is necessary. We will understand how to use Chrome Developer tools and vue-devtools to debug our applications.