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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)

Content distribution


Imagine you're going to build a component-based Vue.js app that resembles the following structure:

Figure 6.12. Component-based Vue.js app

Notice that in the left-branch of the above diagram, ComponentC is declared by ComponentB. However, in the right branch, ComponentD is declared by a different instance of ComponentB.

With what you know about components so far, how would you make the template for ComponentB, given that it has to declare two different components? Perhaps it would include a v-if directive to use either ComponentC or ComponentD depending on some variable passed down as a prop from ComponentA. This approach would work, however, it makes ComponentB very inflexible, limiting its reusability in other parts of the app.

Slots

We've learned so far that the content of a component is defined by its own template, not by its parent, so we wouldn't expect the following to work:

<div id="app">
  <my-component>
    <p>Parent content</p>
  </my...