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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

Understanding the Vuex architecture

Before learning how to use a Vuex store in Nuxt apps, we should understand how it works in standard Vue apps. But what is Vuex? Let's find out in the upcoming section.

What is Vuex?

In a nutshell, Vuex is a centralized data (also referred as state) management system with some rules (which we will look into later) to ensure that the state can only be mutated predictably from multiple (distant) components that need to access the common data. This idea of information centralization is common with tools such as Redux in React. They all share a similar state management pattern with Vuex. Let's take a look at what this pattern is in the next section.

State management pattern

To understand the state management pattern in Vuex, let's take a look at a simple Vue app that we are already familiar with:

<div id="app"></div>

new Vue({
// state
data () {
return { message: '' }
},

// view
template: `
<div...