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How to Build a Sales Funnel with Vue.js

A sales funnel is an online marketing tool that is built and designed to capture leads from traffic and convert them into customers. They tend to convert 20% to 50% higher than ordinary web pages. A sales funnel typically consists of opt-in pages, order forms, shopping carts, checkout pages and email marketing software. Building such a system is not a walk in the park.

The common way of building a sales funnel today is by purchasing a monthly subscription plan from a sales funnel builder platform. The most popular provider currently charges about $100 to $300. There are other affordable options. However, you may encounter limitations or technical challenges with any provider you work with — some more severe than others.

If you don't want to pay for a subscription plan, then you will have to build one yourself. Historically, coding your own funnel has been more expensive and time-consuming. However, we are living in 2019. The technology used by web developers today has improved immensely in the last 10 years.

It's easier and faster to build and deploy a web application. We have tons of third-party providers that allow integrations to their platforms via remote APIs. This allows us to easily implement heavy-duty features without having to write the code ourselves.

The benefits of owning your own funnel code means your business will be more resilient. You can easily switch servers if something doesn't work out with your provider. You can also easily scale up your online business without meeting major obstacles.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to code your own simple sales funnel with Vue that will help you promote a product or service that you are selling to consumers. We'll build a simple squeeze page funnel for collecting leads for your email list.

Prerequisites

This article assumes that you have at least a solid grasp in:

• Modern JavaScript ES6+
• A beginner's knowledge in Vue.js

You'll need to have a modern version of Node.js and the Vue CLI tool installed in your system. At the time of writing this article, Node v10.15.1 was the current LTS. The current Vue CLI version tool is v3.4.1. My personal recommendation is to use nvm to keep your Node.js environment up-to-date. To install the Vue.js CLI tool, execute the command:

npm install @vue/cli

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The Frontend Developer Handbook gets updated for 2019

#387 — April 17, 2019 Read on the Web 🚀New! In this issue we're beginning a 'tip of the week' feature — find it near the end of this issue. If you have any ideas for tips (or links), just hit reply and let us know :-) 🚀 Frontend Focus The Front-End Developer Handbook — 2019 Edition — This popular, detailed guide returns for another year. Updated with plenty of useful resources, learning materials and dev tools. A worthwhile reference. Cody Lindley Edge Goes Chromium: What Does it Mean for Front-End Devs? — Last week the first preview build of Microsoft’s Chromium-powered Edge browser was made available. Here’s a fresh look at some of the pro’s and con’s of this change in the browser landscape. Ollie Willams Become More Productive with the Right Editor — With smart code completion, powerful refactorings, and great support for popular frameworks, all working out of the box, WebStorm makes development easier and more enjoyable. Try the new WebStorm 2019.1. WebStorm sponsor Art Direction for the Web with CSS Shapes — How you can go beyond the basics of CSS Shapes and use them to create different types of distinctive and engaging layouts for art-directed designs. Andy Clarke ▶  Jen Simmons on CSS Standardization — Google’s Rick Viscomi speaks to Jen Simmons (CSS Working Group, Mozilla) on the process of CSS standardization and the evolution of how devs style the web. Google Chrome Developers Revisiting the Rendering Tier: Introducing The Guardian's New Rendering Layer — British news site The Guardian currently uses over 62,000 lines of Sass, and following an appetite for new features and display experiments the time had come to find a suitable alternative. They are now moving their rendering tier to a CSS-in-JS solution based around React and Emotion. Alex Sanders (The Guardian) 💻 Jobs Frontend Developer at X-Team (Remote) — Join the most energizing community for developers. Work from anywhere with the world's leading brands. X-Team Find A Frontend Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started. Vettery 📘 Tutorials & Opinion 58 Bytes of CSS to Look Great Nearly Everywhere — A very much bare bones approach to clean presentation. Joshua RL Form Validation in Under an Hour with Vuelidate — Sarah Drasner runs through some of the trickier sides of form validation, making use of the Vue.js model-based validation library Vuelidate. Sarah Drasner Native Lazy Loading and JS-based Fallback with vanilla-lazyload 12 — Although native lazy loading is on the way (with Chrome Canary already offering support), this tool provides a JavaScript-based alternative for those browsers lacking support for the feature. Here’s the repo. Andrea Verlicchi The Web Developer's Guide to DNS — A little DNS know-how “shines some light on a fundamental, enduring part of the Internet’s plumbing”. RJ Zaworski Studio 3T Makes SQL Migration to MongoDB, Powerfully Simple — Now you can import an entire SQL database to MongoDB using Studio 3T and its new SQL Migration feature. Studio 3T sponsor Animating SVG with CSS — How to bring static SVGs to life with just a few lines of CSS. Hope Armstrong Best Practices for Optimising Video Streams On The Web — Tips on how to optimise video streams and deliver an improved video experience to visitors without delays and buffering. Doug Sillars A 2019 Real World Comparison of Front-End Frameworks — ..with benchmarks. Jacek Schae How to Create Better Themes with CSS Variables Michelle Barker 💡 Tip of the Week supported by A quick performance improvement by giving the browser a headstart with preload An easy way to ensure that critical content gets rendered fast is to use the preload value on a <link> element. It specifies to the browser that the linked resource will be needed early on in the load. Here's a straightforward example on how you can use it: <link href="style.css" rel="preload" as="style"> Placing a preload link in your HTTP header tells the browser to grab this file early, and can be useful for loading important files, such as any critical CSS. Prefetching is similar but is lower priority and designed for resources you might need in future. This resource hint can be used on a variety of content, including audio, embeds, scripts, videos & more. Browser support is good, but isn't universal. Of course, non-supporting browsers will just ignore the directive and do things the usual way, so it's a win-win. Looking for a deeper dive on how you can use this to up your performance game? The below links are a great place to start:. Preload: What Is It Good For? Preload, Prefetch And Priorities in Chrome Using Preload and Prefetch in Your HTML to Load Assets This week's tip is sponsored by CodeFund. Earning funds for your open source projects or tech blogs is now as easy as adding two lines of code to your site. Last month, they paid over $12,000 to devs worldwide. Find out if you qualify. 🔧 Code and Tools medium-zoom: A Library for Medium-Style Image Zooming — Responsive, can load a higher definition version of an image on zoom, and mouse, keyboard and gesture friendly. Demo. François Chalifour Ken-Burns-Carousel: A Web Component That Displays A Set of Images with a 'Ken Burns' Effect — The ‘Ken Burns’ effect is when photos gradually zoom in and transition. Festify motus: Animation Library That Mimics CSS Keyframes When Scrolling — Here’s a little demo. Alexandru Cambose Get the Fastest Website Deployments Buddy sponsor ColorKitty Color Picker — An easy way to extract color palettes from uploaded pictures. Hopsken Mozilla Releases Firefox Beta for Windows 10 ARM Laptops Tom Warren    🗓 Upcoming Events IMAGECON, May 1–2 – San Francisco, CA — A two-day conference with a dozen workshops and seven speakers focused on all things images on the web. CityJS Conference, May 3 — London, UK — Meet local and international speakers and share your experiences with modern JavaScript development. Frontend United, May 16-18 — Utrecht, Netherlands — A yearly, non-profit, developer-first, community-focused conference. CSSCamp 2019, July 17 — Barcelona, Catalunya — A one-day, one-track conference for web designers and developers.

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Facebook’s Dangerous Misuse of User Data Revealed

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