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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

Writing middlewares with Vue Router

Before learning how middleware works in a Nuxt app, we should understand how it works in a standard Vue app. Additionally, before creating middlewares in the Vue app, let's first understand what they are.

What is middleware?

Put simply, a middleware is a software layer situated between two or more pieces of software. This is an old concept in software development. Middleware is a term that has been in use since 1968. It gained popularity in the 1980s as a solution to the problem of how to link newer apps to older legacy systems. There are many definitions for it, such as (from Google Dictionary) "[middleware is a] software that acts as a bridge between an operating system or database and apps, especially on a network."

In the web development world, server-side software or apps, such as Koa and Express, take in a request and output a response. The middlewares are programs or functions that are executed in the middle after the incoming...