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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 (19 chapters)
Vue.js 2 and Bootstrap 4 Web Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Server-side rendering


Server-side rendering (SSR) recently became yet another popular abbreviation in the web development world. Used in addition to code splitting techniques, it helps you to boost the performance of your web application. It also positively affects your SEO, since all the content comes at once, and crawlers are able to see it immediately, contrary to cases where the content is being built in the browser after the initial request.

I found a great article about SSR that compares server and client side rendering (although it's from 2012). Check it out: http://openmymind.net/2012/5/30/Client-Side-vs-Server-Side-Rendering/.

It's fairly easy to bring server-side rendering to your Vue application – check the official documentation in this regard: https://ssr.vuejs.org.

It is important that our applications are performant; it is also important that SEO works. However, it is also important not to abuse the tools and not to introduce implementation overhead and overkill. Do we need...