Introduction of Vue

Vue is a JavaScript Framework

Vue is a front-end JavaScript framework written in JavaScript. Similar frameworks to Vue are React and Angular, but Vue is more lightweight and easier to start with. Vue is distributed as a JavaScript file, and can be added to a web page with a script tag:

Vue is a JavaScript framework. It can be added to an HTML page with a <script> tag.

Vue extends HTML attributes with Directives, and binds data to HTML with Expressions.

<script
  src="https://unpkg.com/vue@3/dist/vue.global.js">
</script>

Important point to learn Vue?

It is simple and easy to use.
It is able to handle both simple and complex projects.
Its growing popularity and open-source community support.
In normal JavaScript we need to write HOW HTML and JavaScript is connected, but in Vue we simply need to make sure that there IS a connection and let Vue take care of the rest.
It allows for a more efficient development process with a template-based syntax, two-way data binding, and a centralized state management.

If some of these points are hard to understand, don’t worry, you will understand at the end of the tutorial.

Options API In Vue

There are two different ways to write code in Vue: The Options API and The Composition API.

The underlying concepts are the same for both the Options API and Composition API, so after learning one, you can easily switch to the other. The Options API is what is written in this tutorial because it is considered to be more beginner-friendly, with a more recognizable structure.

First Vue page

We will now learn how we can create our very first Vue web page, in 5 basic steps:

Start with a basic HTML file.
Add a <div> tag with id="app" for Vue to connect with.
Tell the browser how to handle Vue code by adding a <script> tag with a link to Vue.
Add a <script> tag with the Vue instance inside.
Connect the Vue instance to the <div id="app"> tag.

Step 1: HTML page

Start with a simple HTML page:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>My first Vue page</title>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

Step 2: Add a <div>

Vue needs an HTML element on your page to connect to.

Put a <div> tag inside the <body> tag and give it an id:

<body>
  <div id="app"></div>
</body>

Step 3: Add a link to Vue

<script src="https://unpkg.com/vue@3/dist/vue.global.js"></script>

Step 4: Add the Vue instance

Now we need to add our Vue code.

This is called the Vue instance and can contain data and methods and other things, but now it just contains a message.

On the last line in this <script> tag our Vue instance is connected to the <div id="app"> tag:

<div id="app"></div>

<script src="https://unpkg.com/vue@3/dist/vue.global.js"></script>

<script>

  const app = Vue.createApp({
    data() {
      return {
        message: "Hello World!"
      }
    }
  })

 app.mount('#app')

</script>

Step 5: Display ‘message’ with Text Interpolation

Finally, we can use text interpolation, a Vue syntax with double curly braces {{ }} as a placeholder for data.

<div id="app"> {{ message }} </div>

The browser will exchange {{ message }} with the text stored in the ‘message’ property inside the Vue instance.

Here is our very first Vue page:

Here is an example of first Vue page

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>My first Vue page</title>
</head>
<body>

  <div id="app">
    {{ message }}
  </div>

  <script src="https://unpkg.com/vue@3/dist/vue.global.js"></script>

  <script>
    const app = Vue.createApp({
      data() {
        return {
          message: "Hello World!"
        }
      }
    })

   app.mount('#app')

  </script>
</body>
</html>

If you run the above html code you then you shall see the following:

Hello World!

Conclusion

In this post i have described the basic steps of Vue and showed an example code to show Hellow world!

In my next post I am going to describe Different Vue Directives which are special HTML attributes with the prefix v- that give the HTML tag extra functionality.

This post is part of Vue-Step by step.

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