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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 custom transitions

So far, you have managed to create multiple routes and pages for a Nuxt app and add a loading bar that shows up when switching between pages. This makes a pretty decent-looking app already. But that is not all that you can do with Nuxt. You can add more stunning effects and transitions between pages. This is where the transition properties in pages (for example, /pages/about.vue) come in, as well as the pageTransition and layoutTransition options in the Nuxt config file.

We can apply a transition globally through the Nuxt config file or specifically on certain pages. We will guide you through this topic. However, to understand how the transition works in Nuxt, we should first understand how it works in Vue, and then we can learn how to implement it on our pages when the route is changed. Let's get started.

Understanding Vue transitions

Vue relies on CSS transitions and uses the <transition> Vue component to wrap around an HTML element or a Vue component...