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Hands-on Nuxt.js Web Development

By : Lau Tiam Kok Kok Lau, LAU THIAM KOK
Book Image

Hands-on Nuxt.js Web Development

By: Lau Tiam Kok Kok Lau, LAU THIAM KOK

Overview of this book

Nuxt.js is a progressive web framework built on top of Vue.js for server-side rendering (SSR). With Nuxt.js and Vue.js, building universal and static-generated applications from scratch is now easier than ever before. This book starts with an introduction to Nuxt.js and its constituents as a universal SSR framework. You'll learn the fundamentals of Nuxt.js and find out how you can integrate it with the latest version of Vue.js. You'll then explore the Nuxt.js directory structure and set up your first Nuxt.js project using pages, views, routing, and Vue components. With the help of practical examples, you'll learn how to connect your Nuxt.js application with the backend API by exploring your Nuxt.js application’s configuration, plugins, modules, middleware, and the Vuex store. The book shows you how you can turn your Nuxt.js application into a universal or static-generated application by working with REST and GraphQL APIs over HTTP requests. Finally, you'll get to grips with security techniques using authorization, package your Nuxt.js application for testing, and deploy it to production. By the end of this web development book, you'll have developed a solid understanding of using Nuxt.js for your projects and be able to build secure, end-to-end tested, and scalable web applications with SSR, data handling, and SEO capabilities.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Section 1: Your First Nuxt App
5
Section 2: View, Routing, Components, Plugins, and Modules
10
Section 3: Server-Side Development and Data Management
14
Section 4: Middleware and Security
17
Section 5: Testing and Deployment
20
Section 6: The Further Fields

Getting started with Vuex

As we mentioned in the previous section, all Vuex activities happen in a store, which can be created simply in your project root. However, while it seems simple, a Vuex store is different from a plain JavaScript object because a Vuex store is reactive, just like the two-way binding on an <input> element with the v-model directive. So, any state data you access in Vue components is reactively updated when it is changed in the store. The data in the store's state must be explicitly committed through mutations, just like we explained in the diagram in the previous section.

For this exercise, we will use a single-file component skeleton to build some simple Vue apps with Vuex. We will put all our sample code in /chapter-10/vue/vuex-sfc/ in our GitHub repository. Let's get started.

Installing Vuex

Before we can create a Vuex store, we must install Vuex and import it using the following steps:

  1. Install Vuex by using npm:
$ npm i vuex
  1. Import and register...