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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

Understanding classic SPAs and Nuxt SPAs

An SPA, also referred to as a classic SPA, is an app that loads once on a browser and does not require us to reload and re-render the page throughout the life of the app. This differs from multiple-page applications (MPAs) in which every change and every data exchange with the server requires that we rerender the entire page anew, from the server to the browser.

In a classic/traditional SPA, the HTML that's served to the client is relatively empty. JavaScript will dynamically render the HTML and content once it gets to the client. React, Angular, and Vue are popular choices for creating classic SPAs. However, don't get confused with the Nuxt app in spa mode (let's called it Nuxt SPA), even though Nuxt offers you the option to develop an "SPA" with just one line of configuration, as follows:

// nuxt.config.js
export default {
mode: 'spa'
}

Nuxt's SPA mode simply means that you lose the server-side features...