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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
Creating a Framework-Agnostic PHP API for Nuxt

In previous chapters, such as Chapter 8, Adding a Server-Side Framework, and Chapter 9, Adding a Server-Side Database, you learned how to create APIs using Nuxt's default server with Node.js JavaScript frameworks such as Koa and Express. In Chapter 12, Creating User Logins and API Authentication, you learned how to create APIs using an external server with the same Node.js JavaScript framework Koa.

In this chapter, we will guide you through how to create APIs using an external server with PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (or simply PHP) instead. In Chapter 9, Adding a Server-Side Database, you also learned how to use MongoDB to manage the database. However, in this chapter, we will use MySQL instead, which you used with Koa in Chapter 12, Creating User Logins and API Authentication.

Most importantly, in this chapter, you...