Vue.js in Action

The book is a pretty knowledgeable book and good to keep on hand when wanting to revist certain aspects on Vue, but to give this book to someone with 0 insight on Vue would be in a word, sadistic. What is written in the book doesn't properly align with the end result the book depicts. I had to constantly pull from the code in Erik's github repo he linked in the appendix of the book to get the CSS looking similar to what he had in the book. Also Erik doesn't really build along side you as a developer but moreso just talks about what he's doing and expects you to follow along side with him; even if that means changing the physiology of the project itself already made in your chosen IDE. I would have much liked this book if Erik gave a clear starting point for readers to start developing and had dedicated the github repo strictly for what the product(in this case a Pet Market) should start to look like at each chapter. But for now I am purely using this book to skim and look at different applications of Vue.js that I wasn't familiar yet with, like transitions. Again I don't want to sound like this book is a bad book because Erik does know what he's talking about effectively in terms of Vue. I just think there could have been more thought on the organization of this lesson in Vue to better articulate what the lesson plan was for this book.

I purchased several books on Vue.js and this book is one of the best. It offers clear explanations and the book's topics are presented in a way that builds a good understanding of how to use the framework. The author clearly describes the code and what it is doing. I recommend this to anyone that is new to Vue.js.

Easy to read and understand. Author does a great job of introducing topics in order of foundational steps. I’d recommend this book to anybody looking to learn VueJS.

I am not done reading, but so far, it is great. They step you thru learning Vue.js in a very good readable format.

Great book. Highly Recommend

I've read a few of Manning's "In Action" series mainly because they go through creation of a real-world (or close enough) app. Each chapter builds on the other. Vuejs In Action mildly differs from this approach given how the book is structured.It is in that structure that it reads more like a cookbook, since each chapter has small coding exercises to illustrate the topic being explained. However, it doesn't follow the In Action format I'm accustomed to.The book's app is that of a pet store, but the presentation is choppy due to the aforementioned cookbook structure. I would have like each snippet explained and then code used to support that as it relates to the app being made. It should build upon previous chapters. The layout of this book is not like this.Check out the book's GitHub page to get an idea of what I'm talking about. You'll see all the various snippets, but none of them really build on each other as with MongoDB In Action and Electron In Action, to name a couple.

All in all this is a pretty good book. I've got 8 months Vue experience and so of course there is plenty of room to learn, and in chapter 3 I learned about a good use case for the beforeUpdate lifecycle hook, and in the next chapter I learned about v-model modifiers. Furthermore there are sections on routing (which I have passing exposure to) and VueX (which I have no exposure to) that I'm looking forward to.The book is not without it's shortcomings however. For one it does not sufficiently define its audience. Early on the impression (introduction?) is given that the reader's level could be as minimal as a beginning web developer, but this is contradicted by the needless reference in chapter one to "functional programming idioms", which is a decidedly advanced topic, but then later the author(s) decide they need to explain the ternary operator, which is intermediate at best.Furthermore the book propagates misinformation about the Virtual DOM. It is *not* especially speedy; google for "Memoized DOM" to read more.Also there are some technical errors. In chapter 2 there is a flawed use of parseInt that doesn't account for a string value such as "123-abc" being transformed to the number 123. Or there are bad examples, such as in chapter 4 where the author(s) even mention that they will "assume ZIP Codes in our app don’t start with a zero". Since they can though, they should have chosen a different example.Finally, earlier this autumn the creator of Vue spoke at a conference about the upcoming version Vue 3.0, so this book may become dated fairly quickly.

This book is very pleasantly written. Concepts are introduced up front and then there use is explained. I don't find the pace too slow, I have been reading Web developments books for a while now and I have a good deal of GUI development experience.It is true that the book doesn't stick purely to the one coding example and this is brilliant. When a new detail is introduced it is sometimes demonstrated in a little code of it's own. Some chapters are a deep dive into new material, but there are no cement shoes, and the next chapter see you back on track to create a more informed version of the base coding example.Part 2: In part 2 a lot of additional Vue techniques are introduced. Sometimes it's a lot, even though he does a nice job of keeping the chunks small. There are a lot of different subjects, some of them are used to make the main example code more sophisticated. This part is really best viewed as in introduction to Vue subjects. There are references threw-out pointing to the official documentation.Part 3: In the last section the first two chapters introduce more higher level concepts that are used on the project. And there is a chapter on testing. This is short but gives you an overview of the process, a process, and talks about other options a bit. in all this book did a very good job of introducing the subject. There is lots of documentation in the world so a good book for me is a curated tour of the subject.

Very good book for me to learn from. I enjoy the read as it is well written. The font and size of sample text is good to. I have had issues before were the text was not clearly printed. Glad all code is downloadable so you are able to compare. The author walks you threw developing a real world app (well could be.) So it is not focused on splitting the Vue is into foundation, intermediate and advance. However is more of a merge between the three. Which gets you thinking very good book if not the best

Franchement c'est assez sympa. Le livre donne les notions au fur et à mesure en commençant par les plus faciles de manière à que si on arrête de lire , on puisse tout de même mettre en application ce qu'on a appris. C'est mon cas a moi qui n'ai pas lu les derniers chapitres . Tous est fait avec comme exemple un site qui s'étoffe peu a peu. Petit bémol : tous les exemples imprimés ne sont plus forcément à jour mais les exemples sur GitHub sont eux mises à jour. Le niveau d'anglais est assez accessible. Si tous les livres techniques pouvaient être comme ça ce serait bien.