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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

Writing Nuxt modules

A module is simply a top-level JavaScript function that is executed when Nuxt is started. Nuxt will call each module in order and wait for all modules to finish before continuing to call the Vue instance, the Vue plugins, and the global functions that are to be injected into $root and the Nuxt context. Because modules are called before them (i.e Vue instance, etc), we can use modules to override templates, configure webpack loaders, add CSS libraries, and perform other tasks that you need for your app. Besides this, modules can also be packaged into npm packages and shared with the Nuxt community. You can check out the following link for production-ready modules made by the Nuxt Community:

https://github.com/nuxt-community/awesome-nuxt#official

Let's give the Axios module a try, which is a module integrated with Axios (https://github.com/axios/axios) for Nuxt. It comes with features such as setting the base URL for the client and server sides automatically. We...