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Challenge: Adding State Management to an Application with Pinia
Vue is a great front-end framework to help quickly build web applications, though there are times that managing state across various views can become cumbersome. Pinia is a great plug-in to help you manage state across views. In this challenge lab, your objective is to implement a Pinia store to help manage questions and answers in a Flashcard application.

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Introduction
Welcome to the "Challenge: Adding State Management to an Application with Pinia" lab.
In this challenge lab, your objective is to refactor the Flashcard application to manage the flashcards collection using Pinia.
Currently, the flashcards collection is hardcoded within the
App.vue
component. To ensure future enhancements, such as incorporating a flashcard API or developing a flashcard editor, your task is to refactor the hardcoded flashcard collection into a Pinia store.For this challenge you can simply move the existing hardcoded list into the flashcards store.
To get started, click the Next step > button located below.
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Setting Up Pinia in the Project
Your first task is to create a Pinia instance and pass it to the app as a plugin:
To continue, click the Next step > button below.
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Building the Flashcard Store with Pinia
Now that the Flashcard application is configured to use Pinia, your next task is to create the flashcards store. To continue, click the Next step > button below.
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Using the Flashcard Store in the Application
The flashcard store is now accessible from any component within your application.
At present, the flashcards are hardcoded in the
App.vue
file. You can open that file and refactor it to utilize the newly created flashcard store. To continue, click the Next step > button below. -
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Enhancing the Flashcard Application and Additional Resources
Congratulations on successfully integrating Pinia for state management in your Flashcard application!
To see the application in action, simply click the Run button located in the lower right corner and open the provided link: {{ localhost:5173 }}.
Feel free to keep enhancing the application as you wish. Thanks to the Vite server, any changes you make will be automatically recompiled.
Here are some ideas to consider:
- Add more flashcards directly to the array in the store.
- Include an additional field in the flashcard objects and incorporate a visual element to display it within the FlashCard component.
- Implement an action that allows the addition of new flashcards to the collection.
To deepen your understanding of Vue and Pinia, you can explore the comprehensive documentation available at https://pinia.vuejs.org/. Additionally, Pluralsight offers courses that can further enhance your learning experience.
Wishing you the best as you continue your learning journey with Pluralsight!
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