When working in a React application with API calls, handling redirects in the middle of the request chain can be tricky.
When you make an API call from your frontend code to your server, and the server then makes another request that returns a redirect.
Vue.js looks like a big framework, but day-to-day work leans on a handful of ideas: reactive data, a template that shows it, a few special attributes, computed values, and components that talk through props and events. This post walks through those ideas one at a time with a single small example, so you can read real Vue code by the end.