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Architecting Vue.js 3 Enterprise-Ready Web Applications

By : Solomon Eseme
Book Image

Architecting Vue.js 3 Enterprise-Ready Web Applications

By: Solomon Eseme

Overview of this book

Building enterprise-ready Vue.js apps entails following best practices for creating high-performance and scalable applications. Complete with step-by-step explanations and best practices outlined, this Vue.js book is a must-read for any developer who works with a large Vue.js codebase where performance and scalability are indispensable. Throughout this book, you’ll learn how to configure and set up Vue.js 3 and the composition API and use it to build real-world applications. You’ll develop the skills to create reusable components and scale performance in Vue.js 3 applications. As you progress, the book guides you in scaling performance with asynchronous lazy loading, image compression, code splitting, and tree shaking. Furthermore, you’ll see how to use the Restful API, Docker, GraphQL, and different types of testing to ensure that your Vue.js 3 application is scalable and maintainable. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed in best practices for implementing Restful API, Docker, GraphQL, and testing methods to build and deploy an enterprise-ready Vue.js 3 application of any scale.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Part 1: Getting Started with Vue.js
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Part 2: Large-Scale Apps and Scaling Performance in Vue.js 3
9
Part 3: Vue.js 3 Enterprise Tools
11
Part 4: Testing Enterprise Vue.js 3 Apps
16
Part 5: Deploying Enterprise-ready Vue.js 3

An introduction to GraphQL

GraphQL is the new buzzword in the API development industry. While REST remains the most popular way to expose data from a server, it comes with many limitations that GraphQL tends to solve.

GraphQL is a query language created and maintained by Facebook. The purpose of creating GraphQL is to build client applications based on intuitive and flexible syntax for describing their data requirements and interactions.

One of the benefits of GraphQL is that we have a single endpoint to access all data from the server instead of having multiple endpoints in REST.

In this section, we will explore everything you need to know about GraphQL, the different unique features of GraphQL, and why you should consider GraphQL instead of the RESTful API design pattern. Lastly, we will work you through creating and setting up your first GraphQL server with Express.

What is GraphQL?

As per the official documentation (https://graphql.org/),

GraphQL is a query language...