Full-Stack Vue.js 2 and Laravel 5

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Preface The year is 2014 and the war of Single-Page Application (SPA) solutions is truly raging. There are many rivals: Angular, React, Ember, Knockout, and Backbone, to name but a few. However, the battle being most closely watched is between Google's Angular and Facebook's React. Angular, the SPA king until this point, is a full-fledged framework that follows the familiar MVC paradigm. React, the unlikely challenger seems quite odd in comparison with its core library only dealing with the view layer and markup written entirely in JavaScript! While Angular holds the bigger market share, React has caused a seismic shift in how developers think about web application design and has raised the bar on framework size and performance. Meanwhile, a developer named Evan You was experimenting with his own new framework, Vue.js. It would combine the best features of Angular and React to achieve a perfect balance between simplicity and power. Your vision would resonate so well with other developers that Vue would soon be among the most popular SPA solutions. Despite the fierce competition, Vue gained traction quickly. This was partly thanks to Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel, who tweeted in early 2015 about how impressed he was with Vue. This tweet generated a lot of interest in Vue from the Laravel community. The partnership of Vue and Laravel would become further entwined with the release of Laravel version 5.3 in September 2016, when Vue was included as a default frontend library. This was a perfectly logical alliance for two software projects with the same philosophy: simplicity and an emphasis on the developer experience. Today, Vue and Laravel offer an immensely powerful and flexible full-stack framework for developing web applications, and as you'll find throughout this book, they're a real treat to work with.
What this book covers Building a full-stack app requires a wide variety of knowledge, not just about Vue and Laravel, but also Vue Router, Vuex, and Webpack, not to mention JavaScript, PHP, and web development in general. As such, one of the biggest challenges for me as the author was deciding what should and shouldn't be included. The topics I ultimately settled upon arose as answers to one of the two following questions: What are the essential features, tools, and design patterns that the reader will use in all, or most, of their Vue.js apps? What are the key issues of designing and building full-stack Vue.js apps as opposed to other architectures? Here's how the chosen topics are distributed across the chapters of the book: Chap ter 1, Hello Vue - An Introduction to Vue.js, presents an overview of Vue.js, and the book's case-study project, Vuebnb. Chapter 2, Prototyping Vuebnb, Your First Vue.js Project, provides a practical introduction to the essential features of Vue.js, including installation, template syntax, directives, lifecycle hooks and so on. Chapter 3, Setting Up a Laravel Development Environment, shows how to set up a new Laravel project for inclusion in a full-stack Vue.js app. Chapter 4, Building a Web Service with Laravel, is about laying the foundations of the backend of our case-study project, by setting up the database, models, and API endpoints. Chapter 5, Integrating Laravel and Vue.js with Webpack, explains how a sophisticated Vue app will require a build step, and introduces Webpack for bundling project assets. Chapter 6, Composing Widgets with Vue.js Components, teaches how components are an essential concept of modern UI development and one of the most
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Page 49 and 50: Components Components extend basic
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Data binding A simple task for Vue
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Mock listing While we're developing
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Header image No room listing would
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Directives Vue's directives are spe
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Expressions If a directive requires
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Arguments Some directives take an a
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Figure 2.6. Page including header i
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List rendering The v-for directive
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Prices Let's now add the price list
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Event listener We now want to remov
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Getters and setters To assign a val
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Figure 2.9. Getters and setters Vue
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Image modal window To prevent our h
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Opening First, let's add a Boolean
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Window Let's now add markup for the
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Dimming the main window We could si
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Vue's mount element What if we just
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Closing Users will need a way to cl
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Event modifiers Vue makes it easy t
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Proxied properties You may have not
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Summary In this chapter, we got fam
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Laravel Laravel is an open source M
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Environment We'll be using Laravel
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Vuebnb In Chapter 2, Prototyping Vu
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folders: - map: /Users/anthonygore/
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$ cp .env.example .env $ php artis
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Database We'll be using a relationa
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192.168.10.10 vuebnb.test The hosts
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Summary In this brief chapter, we d
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Vuebnb room listings In Chapter 2,
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Figure 4.1. Vuebnb web service Web
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Database Our web service will requi
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Schema A schema is a blueprint for
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Execution Now that we've set up our
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Creating a seeder Laravel includes
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Inserting the data In order to inse
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+"price_extra_people": "No charge",
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Eloquent ORM Object-Relational Mapp
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Casting The data types in a MySQL d
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Public interface The final piece of
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Controller We'll be adding more rou
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Accessing images Files in the publi
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Image links The payload for each li
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Integrating Laravel and Vue.js with
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JavaScript JavaScript assets are ke
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Node modules Another key aspect of
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Asset compilation The files in reso
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Dependencies In a frontend applicat
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Bundling The process of resolving m
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Laravel Mix One of the downsides of
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$ webpack [options] Rather than fi
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JavaScript Inspecting the output Ja
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Fonts You might think it's strange
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Removing unnecessary dependencies a
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Syntax clash Using the prototype te
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JavaScript Let's now move the proto
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Displaying modules with Webpack Let
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In short, import Vue from 'vue' is
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CSS To migrate CSS, we'll copy styl
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Fonts Open Sans and Font Awesome ne
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After building again, we'll now hav
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Watch mode So far, we've been runni
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Note that if you run BrowserSync in
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Polyfills The ES2015 proposal inclu
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Mock data We've now completely migr
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Injecting data Getting the mock-lis
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Figure 5.16. Model as a JSON string
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Replacing the hard-coded model We n
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Figure 5.19. How the listing model
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Image URLs The last thing to do is
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Figure 5.21. Images are now a data
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Summary In this chapter, we got fam
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Components When we're constructing
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Data In addition to reusable markup
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Composing with components Component
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Registration scope While some compo
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Communicating with components A key
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One-way data flow Since props must
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Image URLs When we created ImageCar
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Distinguishing carousel controls Th
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Single-file components Single-File
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Refactoring components to SFCs Our
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CSS SFCs allow us to add style to a
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CarouselControl Let's now abstract
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Slots We've learned so far that the
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Modal window A lot of the functiona
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Focusing now on the FeatureList com
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Virtual DOM Let's change tack now a
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Vue Loader Wouldn't it be great if
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Vue.js builds There are a number of
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Module system The columns of the ta
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Full build vs runtime-only As we've
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Summary In this chapter, we saw how
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Single-page applications Most websi
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Vuebnb routing It was never a state
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Installing Vue Router Vue Router is
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App component For our router to wor
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Home route Let's now add a server-s
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Initial state Just like our listing
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Refactoring Before we inject the in
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Home page initial state Using Eloqu
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Adding the thumbnail Each mock list
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Receiving in the client With the in
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ListingSummary component Now that t
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Adding a path to the model Let's go
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Route navigation guards Similar to
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HomePage component Let's add before
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merging strategy are explained in t
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assignData You'll notice that withi
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Scroll behavior Another aspect of w
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Figure 7.18. Custom footer on listi
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our custom-footer component. Let's
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Dynamically selecting the container
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Listing summary image slider On our
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Adding the slider We'll now add the
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Carousel controls We now need the c
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Figure 7.24. Hidden left arrow on p
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Managing Your Application State wit
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Figure 8.1. The complexity of commu
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Principle #2 - Data is read-only Co
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Vuex Vuex (usually pronounced vewek
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Save feature As mentioned, we'll be
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} } .listing-summary { ... positi
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Saved state The ListingSave compone
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changed consistently. But there is
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haven't. Thanks to reactive Vuex da
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Adding to ListingPage We also want
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Making ListingSave a button As it i
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Moving page state into the store No
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Checking if page state is in the st
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Saved page We will now add the save
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cursor: pointer; } #toolbar ul li a
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Adding a User Login and API Authent
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Migration Looking first at the data
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Let's now rerun our migrations and
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Server routes Now that we've added
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Adding authentication links to the
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Passing authentication state to the
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Figure 9.6. Value of auth in Vue De
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This is how the toolbar will look n
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Creating an API route We'll begin o
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Vuex actions In Chapter 8, Managing
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Figure 9.10. AJAX call results in a
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OAuth OAuth is an authorization pro
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Attaching tokens OAuth requires an
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Deploying a Full-Stack App to the C
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$ heroku login # Enter your Heroku
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Source code To deploy code to your
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Creating a database We need a datab
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$ heroku config:get CLEARDB_DATABAS
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Migration and seed Once the deploy
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Content distribution networks When
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Uploading files with FTP We will no
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** * Show production mode tip messa
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Reading from the CDN We now want Vu
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Setting the CDN URL The cdn helper
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Using the CDN in Vue In our Vue app
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Finale You have now completed the c
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Next steps You may have reached the
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