Tag Archives: Vue

Deploying a Vue single page app on Laravel Forge

Posted in Javascript on September 19, 2018

Recently we implemented a single page application in Vue. For local development we simply work on our machine using a node dev-server. However, when it is time to go public with the app, we need a deployment strategy. In this post I will explain our setup for a single page application created with Vue and how we deploy the app to a server using Laravel Forge.

Deploying a vue-cli app to a subfolder

Posted in Quick tips on December 1, 2017

Deploying a vue-cli app is very simple. However, the other day I just needed to deploy it to a subfolder on my server. I found out that all it takes is a change in the webpack config to make this work!

Testing Vue components in an isolated way using Storybook

Posted in Javascript on October 12, 2017

Testing your components in Vue is a good idea. You can use unit tests or end-to-end tests. However, testing the look and feel of your components is also possible by simply watching how they render in the page for a specific state of the UI. In this post I’ll discuss two approaches for isolated testing of your Vue components inside a Laravel project.

Transitions in Vue

Posted in Javascript on September 28, 2017

Transitions are essential when you want to create an intuitive user interface. When using Vue, transitions are easily integrated in your application. Here we discuss a use case of one of our own projects.

Did js-beautify break the internet?

Posted in Javascript on September 19, 2017

Monday september 18th, the Vue world is in shock: the vue-cli doesn’t work anymore. A new release of the js-beautify package breaks the npm install command. An issue on Github quickly gets a lot of comments. People are yelling that they can not work and can not ship app X to customer Y. A breakdown of what went wrong.

Why and when do you apply Vuex in your project?

Posted in Javascript on September 18, 2017

In this post we will look into the why and when of applying Vuex to a Vue project. Not a detailed, code-heavy tutorial, we rather focus on a simple example in which it becomes apparent that Vuex is a solution to keep the codebase tidy and maintainable.