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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 learned what a page is in Nuxt and how to create different kinds of routes for your app. You learned how to customize the default app template and layout, as well as how to create new layouts and a 404 page. You learned how to use CSS transitions and animations, as well as JavaScript hooks and methods, to make the transition between your app pages interesting. If you have been following the guides from the start, you should be able to deliver a small project with a nice looking layout by now. You can find a website example in /chapter-4/nuxt-universal/sample-website/ in our GitHub repository that has used what we have learned in this and previous chapters.

In the next chapter, we are going to explore the /components/ directory. You will learn how to make use of it in Nuxt apps to refine the layouts and pages we have covered in this chapter by understanding Vue components in more detail, including passing data to them from the page and layout components, creating...