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Hands-on Nuxt.js Web Development

By : Lau Tiam Kok
Book Image

Hands-on Nuxt.js Web Development

By: Lau Tiam 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

Summary

We have come a long way. In this chapter, you learned about the architecture, core concepts, module structures, and form handling in Vuex stores. At this point, you should know that a Vuex store simply relates to state (or data) centralization and management with some enforced rules that you must comply with. So, for any state property that you may have in your store, the correct way of accessing it is by computing it in the computed property in your components. If you want to change the value of the state property, you must mutate it through mutations, which must be synchronous. If you want to make asynchronous calls to mutate the state, then you must use actions to commit the mutations by dispatching the actions in your components.

You have also learned that creating a store in Nuxt apps is easier and simpler than in Vue apps because Vuex is preinstalled on Nuxt by default. Also, in Nuxt, you do not need to assemble modules and all their methods manually because they are done...