Creating a Vue.js Application with Vue Router

Introduction to Vue Router

In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a Vue.js application with client-side routing using Vue Router. This will allow us to navigate between different pages in our application without requiring a full page reload.

Step 1: Installing Vue Router

First, we need to install Vue Router in our project. We can do this by running the following command in our terminal:

npm install vue-router

Step 2: Creating Routes

Next, we need to create routes for our application. We can do this by creating a new file called router.js in the src directory:

import Vue from 'vue'
import VueRouter from 'vue-router'
import Home from './views/Home.vue'
import About from './views/About.vue'

Vue.use(VueRouter)

const routes = [
  {
    path: '/',
    name: 'home',
    component: Home
  },
  {
    path: '/about',
    name: 'about',
    component: About
  }
]

const router = new VueRouter({
  mode: 'history',
  base: process.env.BASE_URL,
  routes
})

export default router

Step 3: Adding Routes to the App

Finally, we need to add the routes to our App component. We can do this by modifying the main.js file:

import Vue from 'vue'
import App from './App.vue'
import router from './router'

Vue.config.productionTip = false

new Vue({
  router,
  render: h => h(App)
}).$mount('#app')

Now we can run our application using npm run serve and see our routes in action.