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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

Understanding token-based authentication

Token-based authentication is simpler. There are a few implementations of tokens, however, JSON Web Tokens is the most common one. Token-based authentication is stateless. That means no session is persisted on the server side because the state is stored inside the token on the client side. The responsibility of the server is only to create a JWT with a secret and send it to the client. The client stores the JWT in local storage, or a client-side cookie, and includes it in the header whenever making a request. The server then validates the JWT and sends a response.

But what is a JWT and how does it work? Let's find out in the next section.

What are JSON Web Tokens?

To understand how a JWT works, we should understand what it is first. In short, a JWT is a string of a hashed JSON object composed of a header, a payload, and a signature. A JWT is generated with the following format:

header.payload.signature

The header typically consists of two...