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Full-Stack Vue.js 2 and Laravel 5

By : Anthony Gore
Book Image

Full-Stack Vue.js 2 and Laravel 5

By: Anthony Gore

Overview of this book

Vue is a JavaScript framework that can be used for anything from simple data display to sophisticated front-end applications and Laravel is a PHP framework used for developing fast and secure web-sites. This book gives you practical knowledge of building modern full-stack web apps from scratch using Vue with a Laravel back end. In this book, you will build a room-booking website named "Vuebnb". This project will show you the core features of Vue, Laravel and other state-of-the-art web development tools and techniques. The book begins with a thorough introduction to Vue.js and its core concepts like data binding, directives and computed properties, with each concept being explained first, then put into practice in the case-study project. You will then use Laravel to set up a web service and integrate the front end into a full-stack app. You will be shown a best-practice development workflow using tools like Webpack and Laravel Mix. With the basics covered, you will learn how sophisticated UI features can be added using ES+ syntax and a component-based architecture. You will use Vue Router to make the app multi-page and Vuex to manage application state. Finally, you will learn how to use Laravel Passport for authenticated AJAX requests between Vue and the API, completing the full-stack architecture. Vuebnb will then be prepared for production and deployed to a free Heroku cloud server.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Installing Vue.js


Now it's time to add the Vue.js library to our project. Vue was downloaded as part of our NPM install, so now we can simply link to the browser-build of Vue.js with a script tag.

index.html:

<body>
<div id="toolbar">...</div>
<div id="app">...</div>
<script src="node_modules/vue/dist/vue.js"></script>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>

Note

It's important that we include the Vue library before our own custom app.js script, as scripts run sequentially.

Vue will now be registered as a global object. We can test this by going to our browser and typing the following in the JavaScript console:

console.log(Vue);

Here is the result:

Figure 2.3. Checking Vue is registered as a global object