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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)

Preface

The year is 2014 and the war of Single-Page Application (SPA) solutions is truly raging. There are many rivals: Angular, React, Ember, Knockout, and Backbone, to name but a few. However, the battle being most closely watched is between Google's Angular and Facebook's React.

Angular, the SPA king until this point, is a full-fledged framework that follows the familiar MVC paradigm. React, the unlikely challenger seems quite odd in comparison with its core library only dealing with the view layer and markup written entirely in JavaScript! While Angular holds the bigger market share, React has caused a seismic shift in how developers think about web application design and has raised the bar on framework size and performance.

Meanwhile, a developer named Evan You was experimenting with his own new framework, Vue.js. It would combine the best features of Angular and React to achieve a perfect balance between simplicity and power. Your vision would resonate so well with other developers that Vue would soon be among the most popular SPA solutions.

Despite the fierce competition, Vue gained traction quickly. This was partly thanks to Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel, who tweeted in early 2015 about how impressed he was with Vue. This tweet generated a lot of interest in Vue from the Laravel community.

The partnership of Vue and Laravel would become further entwined with the release of Laravel version 5.3 in September 2016, when Vue was included as a default frontend library. This was a perfectly logical alliance for two software projects with the same philosophy: simplicity and an emphasis on the developer experience.

Today, Vue and Laravel offer an immensely powerful and flexible full-stack framework for developing web applications, and as you'll find throughout this book, they're a real treat to work with.