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Vue.js 2 and Bootstrap 4 Web Development

Chapter 2. Under the Hood – Tutorial Explained

In the previous chapter, we built a simple single-page application from scratch. We used Vue.js to implement the application's functionality, Bootstrap to make it beautiful, and Firebase to manage the backend part of the application.

In this chapter, we will get to know all these technologies in depth and see how and why they can work nicely together. We will mostly discuss Vue.js since this will be our number one framework to build our application. Then, we will touch on Bootstrap and Firebase to get a basic understanding of how powerful these technologies are. Having said that, in this chapter we will:

  • Discuss the Vue.js framework, reactivity, and data binding. Not only will we cover Vue.js' basics, but we will also dig into topics such as directives, components, routing, and so on.
  • Discuss the Bootstrap framework. We will see what is possible to achieve with it, discuss how it can be useful to lay out an application...

Vue.js

The official Vue.js website suggests that Vue is a progressive JavaScript framework:

Vue.js

Screenshot from the official Vue.js website

What does that mean? In a very simplified way, I can describe Vue.js as a JavaScript framework that brings reactivity to web applications.

It's undeniable that each and every application has some data and some interface. Somehow, the interface is responsible for displaying data. Data might or might not change during runtime. The interface usually has to react somehow to those changes. The interface might or might not have some interactive elements that might or might not be used by the application's users. Data usually has to react to those interactions, and consequently, other interface elements have to react to the changes that have been done to the data. All of this sounds complex. Part of this complex architecture can be implemented on the backend side, closer to where data resides; the other part of it might be implemented on the frontend side...

Bootstrap

Now that we know almost everything about Vue.js, let's talk about Bootstrap. Check out the official Bootstrap page at https://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/.

Bootstrap

Bootstrap—framework for responsive projects

In a nutshell, Bootstrap gives you a broad set of classes that allow building nearly everything with any layout in an easy and effortless way.

Bootstrap provides with you four most important things:

How to install Bootstrap? It can be installed from the CDN:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-alpha...

Combining Vue.js and Bootstrap

When we were talking about Vue, we devoted a big section to its components. When we talked about Bootstrap, we also talked about components. Doesn't it ring the same bell? Maybe we could create Vue components out of Bootstrap components? Maybe we can! Actually, we have already done it! Open the code of the first chapter's PleaseIntroduceYourself application. Check what we have inside the components folder. There's something that we called MessageCard.vue. Actually, this is an implemented Vue component for Card Bootstrap's component (https://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/components/card/)!

Open the example13-vue-bootstrap-components-started/components folder. Let's use this project as a playground to create the Vue component based on the Bootstrap alert component. Run npm install and run:

cd example13-vue-bootstrap-components-started/components
npm install
npm run dev

Let's create a Vue component called Alert. This component will contain...

What is Firebase?

To understand what is Firebase let's open its website https://firebase.google.com/. This is what we see:

What is Firebase?

Google Firebase landing page

Firebase for Google is yet another cloud service, like AWS for Amazon or Azure for Microsoft, a bit simpler though, because Google already has Google Cloud Platform, which is huge.

If you feel like you want to choose between Firebase and AWS, do not forget that you will most likely Google it. In any case, someone has already done this for you so here you have this question on Quora at https://www.quora.com/Which-is-better-cloud-server-Amazon-AWS-or-Firebase.

I would say that it's more similar to Heroku—it allows you to easily deploy your applications and integrate them with analytics tools. If you have read the Learning Vue.js 2 book (https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/learning-vuejs-2), then you already know how much I love Heroku. I even have Heroku socks!

What is Firebase?

My beautiful Heroku socks

However, I find Google Firebase console...

Summary

In this chapter, we familiarized ourselves with Vue.js, Bootstrap and Firebase. We have also analyzed tools that integrate Vue.js with Bootstrap and Vue.js with Firebase.

Thus, now, we are familiar with Vue.js applications that are built using single-file components, Bootstrap's grid system, components, and CSS helpers to make our lives easier and to make Google Firebase console with its possibilities.

Also, we know how to initialize Vue.js project, and use Vue directives, components, store and routing.

You also learned how to leverage Bootstrap's grid system to achieve the responsibility of our application's layout.

And last but not least, you learned how to use the Firebase API within the Vue application using vuefire bindings.

With the end of this chapter, the first introduction part of our journey also comes to an end.

In the next chapter, we will actually dive deep inside the implementation. As a scuba diving tank, we will take everything that you have learned so far...

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  • Build applications with a good architecture and clean UI with Vue.js and Bootstrap
  • Understand Bootstrap components and learn to integrate them with the Vue.js structure
  • Build, deploy, and test your code with various utility tools provided by Vue.js

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In this book, we will build a full stack web application right from scratch up to its deployment. We will start by building a small introduction application and then proceed to the creation of a fully functional, dynamic responsive web application called ProFitOro. In this application, we will build a Pomodoro timer combined with office workouts. Besides the Pomodoro timer and ProFitOro workouts will enable authentication and collaborative content management. We will explore topics such as Vue reactive data binding, reusable components, routing, and Vuex store along with its state, actions, mutations, and getters. We will create Vue applications using both webpack and Nuxt.js templates while exploring cool hot Nuxt.js features such as code splitting and server-side rendering. We will use Jest to test this application, and we will even revive some trigonometry from our secondary school! While developing the app, you will go through the new grid system of Bootstrap 4 along with Vue.js’ directives. We will connect Vuex store to the Firebase real-time database, data storage, and authentication APIs and use this data later inside the application’s reactive components. Finally, we will quickly deploy our application using the Firebase hosting mechanism.

Who is this book for?

This book is for JavaScript programmers who are new to web frameworks and want to start learning it by developing interactive and responsive web applications.

What you will learn

  • • Create and build web applications using Vue.js, Webpack, and Nuxt.js
  • • Combine Bootstrap components with Vue.js power to enrich your web applications with reusable elements
  • • Connect the Vuex state management architecture to the Firebase cloud backend to persist and manage application data
  • • Explore the new grid system of Bootstrap 4 along with the far simpler directives in Vue.js
  • • Test Vue applications using Jest
  • • Authenticate your application using Bootstrap s forms, Vue.js reactivity, and Firebase s authentication API
  • • Deploy your application using Firebase, which provides Backend as a Service

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1. Please Introduce Yourself – Tutorial Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Hello, user
Creating a project in the Firebase console
Scaffolding a Vue.js application
Adding a Bootstrap-powered markup
Making things functional with Vue.js
Deploying your application
Extra mile – connecting your Firebase project to a custom domain
Summary
2. Under the Hood – Tutorial Explained Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Under the Hood – Tutorial Explained
Vue.js
Bootstrap
Combining Vue.js and Bootstrap
What is Firebase?
Summary
3. Let's Get Started Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Let's Get Started
Stating the problem
Gathering requirements
Personas
User stories
Retrieving nouns and verbs
Mockups
Summary
4. Let It Pomodoro! Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Let It Pomodoro!
Scaffolding the application
Defining ProFitOro components
Implementing the Pomodoro timer
Introducing workouts
Summary
5. Configuring Your Pomodoro Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Configuring Your Pomodoro
Setting up a Vuex store
Defining actions and mutations
Setting up a Firebase project
Connecting the Vuex store to the Firebase database
Exercise
Summary
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6. Please Authenticate!
AAA explained
How does authentication work with Firebase?
How to connect the Firebase authentication API to a web application
Authenticating to the ProFitOro application
Making the authentication UI great again
Managing the anonymous user
Personalizing the Pomodoro timer
Updating a user's profile
Summary
7. Adding a Menu and Routing Functionality Using vue-router and Nuxt.js Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Adding a Menu and Routing Functionality Using vue-router and Nuxt.js
Adding navigation using vue-router
Using Bootstrap navbar for navigation links
Code splitting or lazy loading
Server-side rendering
Nuxt.js
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8. Let's Collaborate – Adding New Workouts Using Firebase Data Storage and Vue.js Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Let's Collaborate – Adding New Workouts Using Firebase Data Storage and Vue.js
Creating layouts using Bootstrap classes
Making the footer nice
Storing new workouts using the Firebase real-time database
Storing images using the Firebase data storage
Using a Bootstrap modal to show each workout
It's time to apply some style
Summary
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9. Test Test and Test
Why is testing important?
What is Jest?
Getting started with Jest
Testing utility functions
Testing Vuex store with Jest
Making Jest work with Vuex, Nuxt.js, Firebase, and Vue components
Testing Vue components using Jest
Snapshot testing with Jest
Summary
10. Deploying Using Firebase Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Deploying Using Firebase
Deploying from your local machine
Setting up CI/CD using CircleCI
Setting up staging and production environments
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Olga Filipova was born in Kyiv, in Ukraine. She grew up in a family of physicists, scientists, and professors. She studied system analysis in the National University of Ukraine Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. At the age of 20, she moved to Portugal, where she did her bachelors' and masters' degrees in computer science from the University of Coimbra. During her studies, she participated in the research and development of European projects and became an assistant teacher of operating systems and computer graphics subjects. After obtaining her masters' degree, she started working at Feedzai. At that time, it was a small team of four, starting the development of a product from scratch, and now, it is one of the most successful Portuguese startups. At some point, her main responsibility became to develop a library written in JavaScript whose purpose was to bring data from the engine to the web interface. This marked Olga's main direction in tech: web development. At the same time, she continued her teaching practice, giving a course of professional web development to the local professional education center in Coimbra. In 2013, along with her brother and her husband, she started an educational project based in Ukraine. This project's name is EdEra and it has grown up from a small platform of online courses into a big player at the Ukrainian educational system scene. Currently, EdEra is moving towards an international direction and preparing an awesome online course about IT. Don't miss it! In 2014, Olga, with her husband and daughter, moved from Portugal to Berlin, where she started working at Meetrics as a frontend engineer and, after a year, became the team lead of an amazing team of frontend software developers. Currently Olga works in a fintech company called OptioPay as a lead frontend engineer. Olga is happily married to an awesome guy called Rui, who is also a software engineer. Rui studied with Olga at the university of Coimbra and worked with her at Feedzai. Olga has a smart and beautiful daughter, Taissa, a fluffy cat, Patusca, and two fluffiest chinchillas, Barabashka and Cheburashka.
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