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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

Deploying a Nuxt SPA

We can deploy a Nuxt SPA just like we can deploy universal SSR Nuxt apps if we have a Node.js runtime server. If we don't, then we can only deploy the SPA as a static site to a static hosting server such as GitHub Pages. You can deploy a static-generated Nuxt SPA as follows:

  1. Make sure that you have set the value to spa in the mode option in the Nuxt config file:
// nuxt.config.js
export default {
mode: 'spa'
}
  1. Make sure you have the following run scripts in the package.json file as well:
{
"scripts": {
"generate": "nuxt generate"
}
}
  1. Run npm run generate, just like you would for the universal SSR Nuxt app. You should see the following output in the terminal:
ℹ Generating output directory: dist/
ℹ Generating pages
✓ Generated /about
✓ Generated /login
✓ Generated /secret
✓ Generated /users
✓ Generated /

In the preceding output, if you navigate to the /dist/ folder inside...