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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 single-file Vue components

We have been writing Vue apps using single HTML pages for quickness and getting the outcomes we wanted to see. But in a real development project in Vue or Nuxt, we wouldn't want to write something like this:

const Foo = { template: '<div>foo</div>' }
const Bar = { template: '<div>bar</div>' }

In the preceding code, we have created two Vue components using JavaScript objects in one place (for example, in a single HTML page), but it is better to separate them and create each component in a separate .js file, like so:

// components/foo.js
Vue.component('page-foo', {
data: function () {
return { message: 'foo' }
},
template: '<div>{{ count }}</div>'
})

This can work very well for a simple component, where the HTML layout is simple. However, in more complex layouts that involve more complicated HTML markups, we would want to avoid coding our HTML inside a JavaScript...