Building a Simple To-Do App with Mint UI and Vue.js
When it comes to building mobile applications, developers often face a dilemma: use native SDKs or opt for cross-platform frameworks like React Native and Flutter. However, for web development, libraries and frameworks like Vue.js offer a viable solution to build mobile-like frontend applications. In this article, we’ll explore how to build a simple to-do app with a mobile-friendly user interface using Mint UI and Vue.js.
What is Vue.js?
Vue.js is an open-source JavaScript library for building frontend user interfaces. Its flexibility allows it to be used for building mobile and desktop user interfaces, and it can even be used as a framework depending on the requirements and type of application.
Setting Up Vue.js
Getting started with Vue.js is a breeze. Using npm, install the Vue CLI from your terminal, and then create a new Vue.js project. Select the default preset, and Vue CLI will install all the required dependencies.
Introducing Mint UI
Mint UI is a library of mobile UI elements for Vue.js. It provides an abundance of CSS and JS components for building mobile-like applications, with styles reminiscent of iOS. At a mere 30KB, it’s incredibly lightweight. To install Mint UI, simply run the command from your terminal.
Building the To-Do App
Now that we have Vue CLI installed and Mint UI set up, let’s create a simple to-do app with the following functionalities:
- Displaying to-do items
- Adding to-do items
- Marking each to-do item as done
- Deleting a to-do item
Project Folder Structure
The Vue.js folder structure is easy to understand. For this tutorial, we’ll be working with the src folder, which contains the assets folder, components folder, public folder, App.vue, and main.js.
Displaying To-Do Items
To display to-do items, we’ll create a Todo.vue component that renders each to-do item passed as props from our to-do list. We’ll also create a Todos.vue component that renders every to-do item in our to-do list using Mint UI components.
Adding To-Do Items
To add to-do items, we’ll create an AddTodo.vue component that uses the uuid library to generate unique IDs for each todo item. We’ll also create a method to add new to-do items to our todos array.
Marking To-Do Items as Done
To mark to-do items as done, we’ll create a styling rule that strikes through a to-do item conditionally. We’ll modify our Todo.vue component to add a markComplete method that changes the state of a to-do item from completed to not completed.
Deleting To-Do Items
To delete to-do items, we’ll create an event in our main component that calls a delete function, which takes an ID as an argument and deletes the object in our to-dos array with the passed ID.
Putting it All Together
Once we’ve built all the components, we can put them together to create a fully functional to-do app. Running our application will display a mobile-friendly user interface that allows users to add, mark as done, and delete to-do items.
Deploying in Production
Finally, we can deploy our website and make it live by creating a production-ready build using Vue CLI.
Conclusion
Mint UI provides simple, clean, and responsive mobile user interface components that can be easily extended to add more features. With Vue.js, building a mobile-like frontend application becomes a breeze. Experience your Vue apps exactly how a user does with LogRocket, a DVR for web and mobile apps that records everything that happens in your Vue apps.