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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

Writing async Nuxt modules

If you need to use a Promise object in your module, for example, to fetch some async data from a remote API using an HTTP client, then Nuxt can perfectly support that. The following are some of the options you can write your async modules with.

Using async/await

You can use ES6 async/await in your module with Axios, the HTTP client that we have been using since Chapter 4, Adding Views, Routes, and Transitions, such as in the following example:

// modules/async-await/module.js
import axios from 'axios'

export default async function () {
let { data } = await axios.get(
'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts')
let routes = data.map(post => '/posts/' + post.id)
console.log(routes)
}

// nuxt.config.js
modules: [
['~/modules/async-await/module']
]

In the preceding example, we use the get method from Axios to get all posts from the remote API, JSONPlaceholder (https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/). You should see the...