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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

Integrating Socket.IO with Nuxt

The Nuxt app we are going to build is very similar to the one we had in the previous chapter, where we had a /users/ directory that contains the following CRUD pages in the /pages/ directory for adding, updating, listing, and deleting users:

users
├── index.vue
├── _slug.vue
├── add
│ └── index.vue
├── update
│ └── _slug.vue
└── delete
└── _slug.vue

You can copy these files from the previous chapter. The only major change and difference in this app is the <script> block, where we will list users in real time by listening to the emit event from the Socket.IO server. To do that, we will need to use the Socket.IO client, which you learned in the Adding and using Socket.IO server and client section with the simple HTML page. So, let's find out how to implement what we already...