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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

Introducing Nightwatch

Nightwatch is an automated testing framework that provides an end-to-end testing solution for web-based apps. It uses the W3C WebDriver API (it was called Selenium WebDriver formerly) behind the scenes to open the web browser to perform operations and assertions on DOM elements. It is a great tool if you want to use a browser to test your Nuxt apps. But before using it in a Nuxt app, let's use it on its own in the following steps to write some simple tests so that you have a basic idea of how it works:

  1. Install Nightwatch via npm and save it to the devDependencies option in the package.json file:
$ npm i nightwatch --save-dev
  1. Install GeckoDriver via npm and also save it to the devDependencies option in the package.json file:
$ npm install geckodriver --save-dev

Nightwatch relies on WebDriver, so we need to install a specific WebDriver server depending on your target browser – for example, if you want to write tests against Firefox only, then you will...

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