Alexander Lichter
Web Engineering Consultant • Founder • Nuxt team • Speaker
Modern Web Development with
Nuxt3
WeAreDevelopers - 25.11.2021
Nuxt3
About me
Alexander Lichter
Nuxt.js Core Maintainer
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Web Dev Consultant
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The Intuitive
Vue Framework
Vue
2
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2
+ vue router + (+ vuex)
2
4
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Why Nuxt?
Why not "just use Vue"...
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Using Nuxt will make your life as a developer easier
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How?
- ⚡️ Batteries included
- 🚀 Optimized
- 🃏 Versatile
- 🧩 Modular
- 🤗 Developer-friendly
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The Intuitive
Vue Framework
Vue
3
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3
Why?
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- Dependencies came out with major (internal) changes
- Vue 3
- Webpack 5
- Vite had been released as "next generation" tooling
- Nuxt module for Nuxt 2 available
- but deeper intergration desirable
- Internal refactorings that would cause breaking changes
- Improve support for deployment (serverless + workers)
- Make vue-router optional (for very simple sites)
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3
5
unjs
- Decoupled modules
- Powering the Nuxt core
- Can be used in any JS/TS project
- Easier to test than the full core
- Helpful for other projects too
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How will it help developers?
- ⚡️ Batteries included
- 🚀 Optimized
- 🃏 Versatile
- 🧩 Modular
- 🤗 Developer-friendly
⚡️ Batteries included
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- Includes common libraries if necessary (e.g. vue router)
- Easy manipulation of the document head (useMeta)
- Configured build tools out of the box (PostCSS, ESBuild, Webpack5/Vite)
- Basic but flexible folder structure
- File-system-based routing
-
Supercharged components
- layout concept
- create easy transition between pages
- composables to make data fetching a breeze
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There can be many folders
But you only need an app.vue to get started
Folder structure
FS Routing explained
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🚀 Optimized
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- Code-splitting by default
- Sensible default configs
- Asset fingerprinting (& cache busting)
- Modern mode
- Smart prefetching
🃏 Versatile
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SPA
Dynamic SSR
SSG
Build classic Single Page Applications - just one HTML files and lots of static assets
Render HTML on the fly through a running Node.js server
Generate your site at build time (Jamstack!) and provide a fallback for dynamic sites
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⚡
🤝
SPA
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CDN
1. Request
2. Return "empty" HTML file + JavaScript
3. Parsing
API
4. Request
5. Response
Dynamic SSR
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Node.js
Server
1. Request
4. HTML + JS
API
2. Request
3. JSON
3. Hydration after
JS download
Static Site Generation
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Node.js
Server
3. HTML + JS as static files
API
1. Request
2. JSON
Generation Step
Static Site Generation
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Client Step
CDN
1. Request
3. Hydration after JS download
🧩 Modular
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☸️ No need to "reinvent the wheel"
✅ Easy to integrate 3rd party libs
🎣 Hook into workflows of the frameworks on demand
👐🏻 Great to share and open source
🧩 Modular
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☸️ No need to "reinvent the wheel"
✅ Easy to integrate 3rd party libs
🎣 Hook into workflows of the frameworks on demand
👐🏻 Great to share and open source
https://modules.nuxtjs.org
🤗 Developer-friendly
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🤗 Developer-friendly
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- Meaningful error messages
- Thorough documentation
- Discord for help, suggestions and chit-chatting https://discord.nuxtjs.org
Important!
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Nuxt3 is still in beta.
Feel free to give it a spin and tell us:
- What you enjoyed
- If there are any hiccups
- Or any severe problems
Live Coding!
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- Initialize our NuxtJS (3) app
- FS Routing
- Data Fetching
- Server Side Rendering
Results
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Thank you!
Alexander Lichter
Nuxt.js Core Maintainer
@TheAlexLichter
Web Dev Consultant
Modern Web Development with Nuxt3 (WeAreDevelopers 2021)
By Alexander Lichter
