Checkout Form Using Tailwind.css & Vue.js

In modern web development, creating user-friendly and visually appealing forms is essential, especially for tasks like online purchases. In this article, we'll guide you through building a checkout form using two popular technologies: Tailwind CSS for styling and Vue.js for dynamic behaviour.

Output Preview:

👁 Screenshot-2024-04-23-155009

Prerequisites:

• Node.js& npm
• HTML, CSS, & JavaScript
• Vue.js& Tailwind

Approach

• Initialize a new Vue.js project and install Tailwind CSS and its dependencies.
• Create a Vue.js component named CheckoutForm.vue to contain the form.
• Structure the form with HTML, including sections for billing address and payment details.
• Define data properties to store form values and methods to handle form submission and interactions.
• Prevent default form submission with @submit.prevent and handle submission in a method, updating the submitted property.
• Use Tailwind CSS utility classes to style the form components for a clean and responsive layout.

Steps to Create the Application

Step 1: Create the Vue project using the following command:

npx @vue/cli create checkout-form

Step 2: Now follow the provided instructions and get into the project directory:

cd checkout-form

Step 3: Install the necessary packages/libraries in your project using the following commands.

npm install -D tailwindcss@latest postcss@latest autoprefixer@latest
npx tailwindcss init -p

Project Structure:

👁 Screenshot-from-2024-04-21-15-42-32

The updated dependencies in package.json file will look like:

"scripts": {
 "serve": "vue-cli-service serve",
 "build": "vue-cli-service build",
 "lint": "vue-cli-service lint"
 },
 "dependencies": {
 "core-js": "^3.8.3",
 "vue": "^3.2.13"
 },
 "devDependencies": {
 "@babel/core": "^7.12.16",
 "@babel/eslint-parser": "^7.12.16",
 "@vue/cli-plugin-babel": "~5.0.0",
 "@vue/cli-plugin-eslint": "~5.0.0",
 "@vue/cli-service": "~5.0.0",
 "autoprefixer": "^10.4.19",
 "eslint": "^7.32.0",
 "eslint-plugin-vue": "^8.0.3",
 "postcss": "^8.4.38",
 "tailwindcss": "^3.4.3"
 }

Example: Implementation to design the checkout form

Step to Run Application: Run the application using the following command from the root directory of the project

npm run serve

Output: Your project will be shown in the URL http://localhost:8080/

👁 checkout form using vue.js