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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

Applying custom validation to a Nuxt application

Let's apply the custom validation to the Contact page in the sample website that we already have. You have probably noticed that the existing contact form has already installed the validation from Foundation (Zurb). Using Foundation's form validation is another great way to spice up our HTML form validation.

If you are interested in knowing more about Foundation, you can find out more from their official guide at https://foundation.zurb.com/sites/docs/abide.html.

But if we want to do the custom validation with VeeValidate, which we have just learned for use in the Vue app, then let's install and set up what we need for Nuxt in the following steps:

  1. Install VeeValidate via npm:
$ npm i vee-validate
  1. Create a plugin file in the /plugins/ directory and add the rules we need, as follows:
// plugins/vee-validate.js
import { extend } from 'vee-validate'
import {
required,
email
} from 'vee-validate/dist/rules&apos...