Preface

Nuxt.js (we will call it Nuxt in this book) is a progressive web framework built on top of Vue.js (we will call it Vue in this book) for server-side rendering (SSR). With Nuxt and Vue, building universal and static-generated applications is easier than ever before. This book will help you get up and running with the fundamentals of Nuxt and how to integrate it with the latest version of Vue, enabling you to build an entire project, including authentication, testing, and deployment, with Nuxt and Vue.js. You will explore Nuxt's directory structure and get your Nuxt project created by using Nuxt's pages, views, routing, and Vue components, and by writing plugins, modules, a Vuex store, and middlewares. Furthermore, you will learn how to create Node.js and PHP APIs or data platforms from scratch by using Koa.js (we will call it Koa in this book), PHP Standards Recommendations (PSRs), MongoDB, and MySQL, as well as using WordPress as a headless CMS and REST API. You'll also use Keystone.js as a GraphQL API to complement Nuxt. You will learn how to create a real-time Nuxt application and API with Socket.IO and RethinkDB, and finally generate static sites with Nuxt and streaming resources (images and videos) from a remote API, whether a REST API or a GraphQL API.