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Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Paul Halliday
Book Image

Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices

By: Paul Halliday

Overview of this book

Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices starts by comparing Vue.js with other frameworks and setting up the development environment for your application, and gradually moves on to writing and styling clean, maintainable, and reusable Vue.js components that can be used across your application. Further on, you'll look at common UI patterns, Vue form submission, and various modifiers such as lazy binding, number typecasting, and string trimming to create better UIs. You will also explore best practices for integrating HTTP into Vue.js applications to create an application with dynamic data. Routing is a vitally important part of any SPA, so you will focus on the vue-router and explore routing a user between multiple pages. Next, you'll also explore state management with Vuex, write testable code for your application, and create performant, server-side rendered applications with Nuxt. Toward the end, we'll look at common antipatterns to avoid, saving you from a lot of trial and error and development headaches. By the end of this book, you'll be on your way to becoming an expert Vue developer who can leverage design patterns to efficiently architect the design of your application and write clean and maintainable code.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Vue.js Principles and Comparisons
12
Server-Side Rendering with Nuxt
Index

Chapter 12. Server-Side Rendering with Nuxt

Nuxt is inspired by a popular React project named Next.js, built by Zeit. Both projects have the aim of creating applications that allow for a better development experience using the latest ideologies, tools, and techniques. Nuxt recently entered version 1.x and onward, meaning that it should be considered stable to use for production websites.

We'll be taking a look at Nuxt in more detail throughout this chapter, and if you find it useful, it may become the default way that you create Vue applications.

In this chapter, we'ill cover the following topics:

  • Investigating Nuxt and understanding the benefits of using it
  • Creating an application with Nuxt
  • Using Nuxt middleware
  • Using layouts to define content
  • Understanding routing within Nuxt
  • Building a Vue project with Server-Side Rendering
  • Building a Vue project as a static site