Build and Reuse Vue components with AI
Vue.js is a progressive JavaScript framework recognized for its ease of use and flexibility in building user interfaces. Its component-based architecture empowers developers to create dynamic, reusable blocks of UI, making it a popular choice for modern web applications. However, as applications grow, it becomes complex to maintain consistency and effective collaboration.
If we introduce new code for each new feature, it often leads to challenges such as:
- Inconsistency: Variations in styling and functionality across components.
- Redundancy: Recreating similar components in multiple projects.
- Time-Intensiveness: Spending countless hours on repetitive coding tasks. Even with Gen-AI to create new code, once it is required to modify code, it needs to identify similar functionality and update, which becomes complex.
- Collaboration Barriers: Difficulty in aligning design and development teams.
This is where reusable components come into play, offering a unique architecture style to reuse code. In a Vue.js project, we can further enhance how we develop and reuse components repeatedly to build more complex components.
Vue.js components encapsulate the logic, template, and styles needed for dynamic UI functionality. Once developed, these components can be versioned and stored in platforms like Bit, allowing them to be reused across different code bases or projects. It is especially useful when creating design systems with a collection of Vue.js components with documentation for maximum reuse and collaboration.
Let’s look at an example of a reusable Vue.js component built for reuse and collaboration.
Example: A Reusable Button Component with Bit
This example demonstrates how a Vue.js button component can be structured, built with dependencies, and shared on Bit Platform for remote storage and reuse.
:class=”`btn-${variant}`”
@click=”onClick”
>
{{ label }}
.btn-secondary {
background-color: var(–secondary-color);
color: black;
border: 1px solid var(–secondary-color);
padding: 0.5rem 1rem;
cursor: pointer;
}
As you can see, it’s just a usual Vue.js component. The difference happens when we track it with Bit CLI and store it in Bit Platform.
To export this component to Bit, follow these steps:
- Track the Component: bit add src/components/button — main src/components/button/index.ts
- Tag the Component: bit tag button — message “Initial version of reusable button component”
- Export to Bit Platform: bit export my-org.ui/button
