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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)

Running Webpack


Now that we have a high-level understanding of Webpack, let's run it and see how it bundles the default frontend asset files.

First, ensure you have all the development dependencies installed:

$ npm install

CLI

Webpack is typically runs from the command line, for example:

$ webpack [options]

Rather than figuring out the correct CLI option ourselves, we can use one of the Weback scripts predefined in package.json. For example, the development script will run Webpack with options suitable for creating a development build.

package.json:

"scripts": {
  ...
  "development": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
  ...
}

First build

Let's now run the dev script (a shortcut for the development script):

$ npm run dev

After this runs, you should see an output in the Terminal similar to the following:

Figure 5.4. Webpack Terminal output

This output tells us a number of things, but most...