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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 Jest?


You know that Facebook guys are never tired of creating new tools. React, redux, react-native and all this reactive family was not enough for them and they created a really powerful, easy-to-use testing framework called Jest: https://facebook.github.io/jest/. Jest is pretty cool because it's self-contained enough for you to not to be distracted by extensive configuration or by looking for asynchronous testing plugins, mocking libraries, or fake timers to use along with your favorite framework. Jest is all in one, although pretty lightweight. Besides that, on every run, it only runs those tests that have been changed since the last test run, which is pretty elegant and nice because it's fast!

Initially created for testing React applications, Jest turned out to be suitable for other purposes, including Vue.js applications.

Check out the great talk given by Roman Kuba during the Vue.js conference in June 2017 in Poland (https://youtu.be/pqp0PsPBO_0), where he explains in a nutshell...