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Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

By : James J. Ye
Book Image

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

By: James J. Ye

Overview of this book

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2, with its practical approach, helps you become a full-stack web developer. As well as knowing how to write frontend and backend code, a developer has to tackle all problems encountered in the application development life cycle – starting from the simple idea of an application, to the UI and technical designs, and all the way to implementation, testing, production deployment, and monitoring. With the help of this book, you'll get to grips with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2 as you learn how to develop a web application. From the initial structuring to full deployment, you’ll be guided at every step of developing a web application from scratch with Vue.js 2 and Spring 5. You’ll learn how to create different components of your application as you progress through each chapter, followed by exploring different tools in these frameworks to expedite your development cycle. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a complete understanding of the key design patterns and best practices that underpin professional full-stack web development.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 12. Flexbox Layout and Real-Time Updates with WebSocket - Creating Boards

The CSS3 Flexbox layout is the new model used to build the layout of a web application. It makes building flexible responsive layout structures easier, without using floats or positioning, and we will use it to build our board page.

Real-time collaboration nowadays has become popular and common in web applications, especially with the standardization of the WebSocket API. In the TaskAgile application, we will implement the real-time update of card changes based on SockJS, which is a cross-browser library that provides a WebSocket-like interface. On the server side, we will use a Spring WebSocket implementation.

In this chapter, you will learn the following:

  • Implementing the UI of the board page with Flexbox
  • Implementing a drag and drop feature for a card list and cards
  • Implementing real-time updates with WebSocket
  • Creating an event bus for cross-component communication
  • Using JWT for authentication