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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

In-app navigation


If we use the address bar of the browser to navigate to the home page, http://vuebnb.test/, it works because Laravel is now serving a page at this route. But, if we navigate to the home page from the listing page, there's no longer any page content:

Figure 7.13. Empty home page after navigating from listing page

We currently don't have any links to the listing page from the home page, but if we did, we'd experience a similar issue.

The reason is that our page components currently get their initial state from the data we've injected into the head of the document. If we navigate to a different page using Vue Router, which doesn't invoke a page refresh, the next page component will have the wrong initial state merged in.

We need to improve our architecture so that when a page is navigated to we check if the model injected into the head matches the current page. To facilitate this, we'll add a path property to the model and check that it matches the active URL. If not, we'll use...