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Vue.js: Understanding its Tools and Ecosystem

By : Dave Berning
Book Image

Vue.js: Understanding its Tools and Ecosystem

By: Dave Berning

Overview of this book

Vue.js is one of the top three “go-to” JavaScript frameworks and is used by organizations such as Nintendo, NASA, and Expedia. This book is primarily focused on the ecosystem of Vue.js and its development tools. Understanding the basics of the technology behind the Vue.js ecosystem will improve your skills and make you a better problem solver. The book begins with a brief overview of Vue.js. You’ll learn to work your way through the Vue command line interface CLI 3, and use the Vue Router library to navigate between the different views of your application. As you advance through the topics, you’ll explore the use of DevTools to improve the quality of your applications and how to implement server-side rendering in your application through the Nuxt.js framework. Toward the end of the book, you’ll read about the future of Vue.js and its growing popularity. After reading this book, you’ll be able to create industry-grade applications using Vue.js and its tools.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Getting Started With Nuxt.js (Manual)

There are two ways that you can install and get started with Nuxt.js. The first way is to install it manually with an NPM command. Installing it manually will also require you to create config files and directories yourself in order to take full advantage of Nuxt.

First, let’s create a project directory called, project-name. Inside of your new project-name directory, create a package.json file in the root directory and paste the following code in it. This tells your new project how to run Nuxt.

$ mkdir project-name

package.json

{
  "name": "project-name",
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "nuxt"
  }
}

Next, run the following command to install the Nuxt package.

$ npm install nuxt --save
# or
$ yarn add nuxt

Once that is done, create another directory called “pages”. This directory is required and will generate a route for every Vue Component that lives here. You should also create...