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Vue.js 2 and Bootstrap 4 Web Development

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Vue.js 2 and Bootstrap 4 Web Development

Overview of this book

In this book, we will build a full stack web application right from scratch up to its deployment. We will start by building a small introduction application and then proceed to the creation of a fully functional, dynamic responsive web application called ProFitOro. In this application, we will build a Pomodoro timer combined with office workouts. Besides the Pomodoro timer and ProFitOro workouts will enable authentication and collaborative content management. We will explore topics such as Vue reactive data binding, reusable components, routing, and Vuex store along with its state, actions, mutations, and getters. We will create Vue applications using both webpack and Nuxt.js templates while exploring cool hot Nuxt.js features such as code splitting and server-side rendering. We will use Jest to test this application, and we will even revive some trigonometry from our secondary school! While developing the app, you will go through the new grid system of Bootstrap 4 along with Vue.js’ directives. We will connect Vuex store to the Firebase real-time database, data storage, and authentication APIs and use this data later inside the application’s reactive components. Finally, we will quickly deploy our application using the Firebase hosting mechanism.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Index

Chapter 5. Configuring Your Pomodoro

In the previous chapter, we implemented the main feature of our ProFitOro application – the Pomodoro timer. We even added a hardcoded workout, so we can exercise during our breaks. Actually, I already started using ProFitOro. While I'm writing these words, the Pomodoro clock counts down – tick tick tick tick.

In this chapter, we are going to explore the Firebase Realtime Database's possibilities and its API. We are going to manage storing, retrieving, and updating usage statistics and configuration of our application. We will use the Vuex store to bring the application's data from the database to the frontend application.

To bring this possibility to the UI, we will use Vue's reactivity combined with the power of Bootstrap. Thus, in this chapter we are going to implement the statistics and settings ProFitOro components using:

  • Firebase Realtime Database
  • Vue.js reactive data bindings and Vuex state management
  • The...