Building Forms with Vue.js

• Learn all about the basics of creating reusable form components with the Vue framework
• Understand v-model and how it plays a role in form creation
• Create forms that are completely powered and generated by a schema, either locally or from an API endpoint
• Understand how Vuelidate allows for easy declarative validation of all your form’s inputs with Vue’s reactivity system
• Connect your application with a Vuex-powered global state management
• Use the v-mask library to enhance your inputs and improve user experience (UX)

Almost every web application and site out there handles user input in one way or another, from registration forms and log-in handling to registration and landing pages. Building Forms with Vue.js follows a step-by-step approach to help you create an efficient user interface (UI) and seamless user experience (UX) by building quick and easy-to-use forms. You’ll get off to a steady start by setting up the demo project. Next, you’ll get to grips with component composition from creating reusable form components through to implementing the custom input components. To further help you develop a convenient user input experience, the book will show you how to enhance custom inputs with v-mask. As you progress, you’ll get up to speed with using Vuelidate and Vuex to effectively integrate your forms. You’ll learn how to create forms that use global state, reactive instant user input validation and input masking, along with ensuring that they are completely schema-driven and connected to your application’s API. Every chapter builds on the concepts learned in the previous chapter, while also allowing you to skip ahead to the topics you’re most interested in. By the end of this book, you will have gained the skills you need to transform even the simplest form into a crafted user and developer experience with Vue.

• Understand the basics of form component composition
• Scale and integrate your forms with libraries such as Vuex and Vuelidate
• Convert any form into a self-generated schema-driven app

Table of contents

1 Setting up the Demo Project
Technical requirements
Installing Vue CLI onto our computer
Creating our new project
A quick look at the project structure
Summary

2 A Form in its Simplest Form
Technical requirements
Getting started using Bootstrap
Actually writing some code
Binding the inputs to local state
Submitting the form's data
Bringing in Axios
Summary

3 Creating Reusable Form Components
Technical requirements
Breaking down the form into components
Understanding v-model in custom components
Implementing a custom input component
One more time – with dropdowns!
Summary

4 Input Masks with v-mask
Technical requirements
Installing the v-mask library
Exploring the v-mask directive
Enhancing our custom inputs
Summary

5 Input Validation with Vuelidate
Technical requirements
Installing dependencies
Creating validation rules
Moving validation into our custom inputs
Adding the final touches
Summary

6 Moving to a Global State with Vuex
Technical requirements
Adding Vuex to our project
Creating the mock API endpoint
Creating the global state
Adding some mutations to our store
Lights, Vue, actions!
Vuelidate and Vuex
Summary 

7 Creating Schema-Driven Forms
Technical requirements
Exploring the starter kit
Preparing the schema
Dynamically binding the user's data
Creating a mock API
Loading the new API into the app
Translating the API into a working schema
Summary