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Vue.js 2 and Bootstrap 4 Web Development

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Vue.js 2 and Bootstrap 4 Web Development

Overview of this book

In this book, we will build a full stack web application right from scratch up to its deployment. We will start by building a small introduction application and then proceed to the creation of a fully functional, dynamic responsive web application called ProFitOro. In this application, we will build a Pomodoro timer combined with office workouts. Besides the Pomodoro timer and ProFitOro workouts will enable authentication and collaborative content management. We will explore topics such as Vue reactive data binding, reusable components, routing, and Vuex store along with its state, actions, mutations, and getters. We will create Vue applications using both webpack and Nuxt.js templates while exploring cool hot Nuxt.js features such as code splitting and server-side rendering. We will use Jest to test this application, and we will even revive some trigonometry from our secondary school! While developing the app, you will go through the new grid system of Bootstrap 4 along with Vue.js’ directives. We will connect Vuex store to the Firebase real-time database, data storage, and authentication APIs and use this data later inside the application’s reactive components. Finally, we will quickly deploy our application using the Firebase hosting mechanism.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Vue.js 2 and Bootstrap 4 Web Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

What is Firebase?


To understand what is Firebase let's open its website https://firebase.google.com/. This is what we see:

Google Firebase landing page

Firebase for Google is yet another cloud service, like AWS for Amazon or Azure for Microsoft, a bit simpler though, because Google already has Google Cloud Platform, which is huge.

If you feel like you want to choose between Firebase and AWS, do not forget that you will most likely Google it. In any case, someone has already done this for you so here you have this question on Quora at https://www.quora.com/Which-is-better-cloud-server-Amazon-AWS-or-Firebase.

I would say that it's more similar to Heroku—it allows you to easily deploy your applications and integrate them with analytics tools. If you have read the Learning Vue.js 2 book (https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/learning-vuejs-2), then you already know how much I love Heroku. I even have Heroku socks!

My beautiful Heroku socks

However, I find Google Firebase console also quite nice...