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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

Introducing Nightwatch

Nightwatch is an automated testing framework that provides an end-to-end testing solution for web-based apps. It uses the W3C WebDriver API (it was called Selenium WebDriver formerly) behind the scenes to open the web browser to perform operations and assertions on DOM elements. It is a great tool if you want to use a browser to test your Nuxt apps. But before using it in a Nuxt app, let's use it on its own in the following steps to write some simple tests so that you have a basic idea of how it works:

  1. Install Nightwatch via npm and save it to the devDependencies option in the package.json file:
$ npm i nightwatch --save-dev
  1. Install GeckoDriver via npm and also save it to the devDependencies option in the package.json file:
$ npm install geckodriver --save-dev

Nightwatch relies on WebDriver, so we need to install a specific WebDriver server depending on your target browser – for example, if you want to write tests against Firefox only, then you will...