Building the Real Application Chapter 5Vue.js is progressive. With Vue.js, you can start with small and then progress gradually
toward building bigger applications. This means that if you are just starting out, you might
want to start with a very small application and scale slowly. Vue.js is perfect for such
applications. It is lightweight and flexible as well. The learning curve is also very easy and
super easy to get started.
Vue.js was invented by Evan You. It was first released in February 2014 and gained huge
popularity around 2016. He used to work for Google and in Angular projects. The
motivation for this invention was mainly because he didn't want to use Angular for small
projects, since Angular provides a lot of packages out of the box and, hence, is not
lightweight and not suitable for small applications. Having said that, Vue.js does not only
target the smaller applications. It definitely does not provide all the packages with it, but
you can add them as you progress with your application. That is the beauty of Vue.js.
Installing Vue.js
Let's get started with the installation of Vue.js. There are three ways to install and use
Vue.js.
Including it in a script tag
The easiest way to use Vue.js is to download it and include it in your script tag. You can
download it from https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue:
<script type="text/javascript" src="vue.js"></script>Using Content Delivery Network (CDN) links directly
CDN is a network of distributed servers. It stores the cached version of contents in different
geographical locations so that the content loads faster when fetched. We can use the CDN
link directly in our script tag:
<script type="text/javascript"
src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue.js"></script>