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Vue.js 2 Web Development Projects

You're reading from   Vue.js 2 Web Development Projects Learn Vue.js by building 6 web apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787127463
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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FAQ - Consuming an API


In this section, we will create the FAQ page, which will get data from the server. It will display a loading animation and then the list of questions and answers.

Server setup

This is our first app that will communicate with a server. You will get a server with a ready-to-use API.

You can download the server files (https://github.com/Akryum/packt-vue-project-guide/tree/master/chapter5-download). Extract them into another folder than our app and run the following commands to install the dependencies and launch the server:

cd server_folder
npm install
npm start

You should now have the server running on port 3000. When this is done, we can continue building our app with a real backend this time!

Using fetch

In the FAQ.vue Single File Component, we will use the standard fetch API of the web browser to retrieve the questions from our server. The request will be a very simple GET request to http://localhost:3000/questions with no authentication. Each question object will have title...

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