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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

Summary

In this chapter, you managed to create custom post types and routes to extend the WordPress REST API, integrated with Nuxt, and streamed the remote resources from WordPress to generate static pages. You also managed to customize a CMS from Keystone by creating lists and fields. You then learned how to create a GraphQL API at a low level with GraphQL.js and at a high level with the GraphQL schema language and Apollo Server. Now that you've grasped the foundations of GraphQL, you can query the Keystone GraphQL API from the Nuxt app using GraphQL queries and Axios. And last, not least, you can stream remote resources from the Keystone project to the Nuxt project to generate static pages. Well done!

This has been a very long journey. You've gone from learning about the directory structure of Nuxt to adding pages, routes, transitions, components, Vuex stores, plugins, and modules, and then to creating user logins and API authentication, writing end-to-end tests, and creating...