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Hands-on Nuxt.js Web Development

You're reading from   Hands-on Nuxt.js Web Development Build universal and static-generated Vue.js applications using Nuxt.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789952698
Length 698 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Section 1: Your First Nuxt App
2. Introducing Nuxt FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Started with Nuxt 4. Adding UI Frameworks 5. Section 2: View, Routing, Components, Plugins, and Modules
6. Adding Views, Routes, and Transitions 7. Adding Vue Components 8. Writing Plugins and Modules 9. Adding Vue Forms 10. Section 3: Server-Side Development and Data Management
11. Adding a Server-Side Framework 12. Adding a Server-Side Database 13. Adding a Vuex Store 14. Section 4: Middleware and Security
15. Writing Route Middlewares and Server Middlewares 16. Creating User Logins and API Authentication 17. Section 5: Testing and Deployment
18. Writing End-to-End Tests 19. Using Linters, Formatters, and Deployment Commands 20. Section 6: The Further Fields
21. Creating an SPA with Nuxt 22. Creating a Framework-Agnostic PHP API for Nuxt 23. Creating a Real-Time App with Nuxt 24. Creating a Nuxt App with a CMS and GraphQL 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating headless REST APIs in WordPress

WordPress (WordPress.org) is an open source PHP CMS for general-purpose website development. It is not "headless" by default; it is stacked with a template system. This means the view and the data are intertwined. However, since 2015 (WordPress 4.4), the REST API infrastructure has been integrated into WordPress core for developers, and now all the default endpoints can be accessed if you append /wp-json/ to your website-based URL. You can also extend the WordPress REST API and add your own custom endpoints. So, we can easily use WordPress as a "headless" REST API by ignoring the view. You will find out how to achieve this in the upcoming sections. To speed up the development process, we will install the following WordPress plugins:

  • Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for creating custom meta boxes. For more information about this plugin, please visit https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/
  • The ACF Repeater Field for creating a repeatable...
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