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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

Scaffolding the application


Before everything, let's make sure that we are on the same page, at least regarding the node version. The version of Node.js I'm using is 6.11.1.

Let's start by creating a skeleton for our application. We will use vue-cli with the webpack template. If you don't remember what vue-cli is about and where it comes from, check the official Vue documentation in this regard at https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli. If for some reason you still haven't installed it, proceed with its installation:

npm install -g vue-cli

Now, let's bootstrap our application. I'm sure you remember that, in order to initialize the application with vue-cli, you must run the vue init command followed by the name of the template to be used and the name of the project itself. We are going to use the webpack template, and our application's name is profitoro. So, let's initialize it:

vue init webpack profitoro

During the initialization process you will be asked some questions. Just keep hitting Enter...