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The FDB App in Vue

In the last installment, we thought we could clone a folder tree and get a working project, but...no. Vue likes to be in charge. The vue create fdb command line works perfectly, thankyouverymuch.

So, we turn to our UI design and find that it breaks down into Views and Components quite easily.

Like the Todo app from the tutorial, our layout has a common Header consisting of 3 nav buttons and a Search Component.

Views


  • ListView - headlines a list of films, people, or companies with a filter box. See them all at first (we have 3000+ people), then type until you see the one you want. Also includes an Add button.
  • RecordView - the headline for a film or person form. The form looks like a display until you click, when the edit box appears. If you clicked the Add button, this will be an empty form. Otherwise, it will show a single record. There are 3 tabs, but the second and third tabs show relationships and are not editable.
  • ResultsView - Displays the results of a Search, grouped by Films, People, and Companies. A filter box refines the search.

Components

  • Header - 3 nav buttons, Search
    • Search box - Enter = perform search
  • List - title, add button, filter text box, sort order controls
    • ItemList - Films or People
      • Item -Film or Person
    • CompanyTable - Editable table of companies (2 fields)
  • Record - title, set of 3 tabs, images, cancel button, add/update button
    • Tab1 is a form that displays basic fields for Film or Person
    • Tab2 is more fields from that form (Film)
    • Tab3 is a static display
    • Tab4 is a form that displays basic fields for Person
    • Tab2 is a static display
    • Tab3 is a static display
  • SearchResults - 3 lists, basically
  • AddCompany - Pop-up dialog

Router

Back to the tutorial, because I think we have to load another package/dependency. We could use npm, but the tutorial uses vue ui. In the Plugins page, there are buttons for adding vuex and vue-router. Adding vue-router overwrites the App.vue file
  • The Nav buttons are:
    • Film DB (Home) - / [ListView for films]
    • People - /people [ListView for people]
    • Companies - /companies [ListView for companies]
  • Clicking a Film or Person in the list switches to
    • Film - /film [RecordView for film]
    • Person - /person [RecordView for person]
  • Clicking the Add button
    • Home (Films): Film with 0 id
    • People (People): Person with 0 id
    • Companies: Displays AddCompany dialog
  • Clicking the Update button (Film and Person records only)
    • Processes the update and returns to the Film or Person page
  • Clicking the Cancel button (Film and Person records only)
    • Re-fetches the record and re-displays the page
  • Enter when the Search box is not empty and has the focus
    • Goes to /results





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