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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 (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Creating routes


The most basic configuration for Vue Router is to provide a routes array, which maps URLs to the corresponding page components. This array will contain objects with at least two properties: path and component.

Note

Note that by page components I'm simply referring to any components that we've designated to represent a page in our app. They are regular components in every other way.

For now, we're only going to have two routes in our app, one for our home page and one for our listing page. The HomePage component doesn't exist yet, so we'll keep its route commented out until we create it.

resources/assets/js/router.js:

import ListingPage from '../components/ListingPage.vue';

export default new VueRouter({
  mode: 'history',
  routes: [
    // { path: '/', component: HomePage }, // doesn't exist yet!
    { path: '/listing/:listing', component: ListingPage }
  ]
});

You'll notice that the path for our ListingPage component contains a dynamic segment :listing so that this route will...