In this post we will see how to create a simple timesheet app using Vue and Vuetify. This is not quite a comprehensive tutorial on Vue or Vuetify, rather a demo of front-end features, see how easy it is to build an usable app, and in general, how modern app development makes the whole process enjoyable.

Dialogs are those thingies that popup on your UI and are handy to allow users to perform actions without navigating away from the screen. For example, here’s one that enables users to create new request.. .. and here’s an example from Vuetify site that shows a short message. The v-dialog component is the recommended way to show confirmation dialogs too.

Enabling social share buttons in Vuetify is quite easy. All you have to do is stitch together three components provided out of the box - Speed dial Buttons Icons We will create a quick demo on Codepen. Create a new Codepen, click on Settings, navigate to JS and add the below libraries -

Vuetify is a God-send for lazy developers like me. Thanks to Vuetify I have all styles standardized, customise UI to my heart’s content and create an app that is ready to take on any device. But, Vuetify does not support masonry layout for your grid. Here’s a look at available options if you need masonry layouts in your projects.

I am a big fan of Vuetify - it has far too many components available out of the box and makes my life as easy as it gets. But that does not prevent me from getting annoyed by small “stuff” that matter. Take tooltip as an example. Vuetify has v-tooltip component to enable tooltips -

How do you create typical layouts in the the most popular Material Design styling libraries for Vue? Creating layouts for your application Layouts help us standardize UI across the application. For e.g., you have layouts to take care of - Toolbar for the app and for views/components Navigation bars Standard controls (buttons/titles etc.

Centralize all error, warning and info alerts in one place. I like v-alert and tend to over-use it. It enables us to show detailed notifications (error or otherwise) - without significantly causing user inconvenience. I find v-alert more suitable in my apps than using, say, popup alerts that interrupt users, or “toast” notifications which I find unsuitable for detailed messages.

What is your preferred way of showing role-based menus and buttons in toolbar and navigation menus? A typical application may have many toolbars and navigation bars, each relevant to a specific set of users. You can then show/hide the elements based on the user role. In smaller applications, I simply choose to show or hide the menu items on a single navigation bar.

I am a fan of dialogs but overlay function was long due in Vuetify. It is fairly common to use Vuetify dialogs to popup a component. You would have seen this option against many ‘edit’ buttons in data tables, or against ‘new’ button in a list/detail component. We include such a dialog using v-dialog.

Vuetify has been an excellent companion to me. I absolutely suck as a designer. I can hide behind libraries like Vuetify and unleash my web app creativity on this poor planet. So, it was with lot of excitement that I looked forward to Vuetify 2.0, which had been sometime in the making.

I love Vue / Vuetify and use them quite often in my projects. I had to display charts in a couple of recent projects and my search led to v-charts. I was impressed with what the library could do - v-charts is a Vue wrapper for eCharts, the Baidu-developed chart library The v-charts library makes it really easy to use ECharts.

A common requirement in any data-driven application is to show any alerts including error or warning messages at a standard location within a Vue component. This is easily accomplished using v-alert in Vuetify, but it is a good idea to use it in combination with a snackbar. Consider a typical component Account.

In one of the recent projects there was this requirement to create a FAQ page for a small application. The change was not planned and came up during the final stages of the project. I took it in the same spirit as what I do for a home page. I did not plan to use SSR or a static-site generator, but rather leaned back on the excellent ‘prerender-spa-plugin’.