Gain insights into using NuxtJS for server-side rendered Vue apps. Explore configuration, rendering modes, and components. Discover strategies to optimize SEO and performance for content-rich projects.

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NuxtJS is a framework built on top of Vue that offers additional features and benefits, especially for large-scale and content-driven projects. It provides server-side rendering, which can improve performance and SEO.

In this course, you’ll get briefly introduced to Vue, covering components, views, routing, state management, and others. Then, you’ll get acquainted with NuxtJS and learn about configuration and structure for NuxtJS projects. Further, you’ll learn about different NuxtJS rendering modes and the key factors to consider when choosing a mode for the example survey application project. You’ll work with NuxtJS components, pages, layouts, plugins, and middleware. You’ll then develop a complete server-side rendered Vue.js application using NuxtJS and learn about optimizing server-side rendered applications for SEO and performance.

By the end of the course, you’ll possess the skills to develop, deploy, and optimize a feature-rich, server-side rendered web application utilizing Vue and NuxtJS.

Build a Modern Server-Side Rendered Vue Application with NuxtJS

Writing unit tests is an essential aspect in building a modern application because it involves the development of automated tests that would verify the functionality of individual units of code in isolation. Unit tests are typically written by developers to catch bugs, ensure proper behavior, and maintain code quality. 

In this lesson, we will configure the testing framework that will be used to support the building of the application.

Nuxt and Vue have a dedicated testing framework, **Vitest**, a unit testing framework built on top of Jest, powered by Vite. In Nuxt, Vitest is supported by the Nuxt Test Utils library.

By default, Vitest scans the entire directory in the project for files with extension `.spec.ts`, such as `test.spec.ts`. Most projects also keep tests relating to a part of the code in the same directory as the code but in a separate folder mostly named `__tests__`.


# Testing with Vitest

Vitest is built on top of Jest, a JavaScript testing framework and so it has a lot of implementation similarities with Jest.

The basic structure of a Vitest test wil include the following:
- `describe`: This is a function used to group test cases together and provide a descriptive name for the group. It helps in organizing tests based on their functionality or purpose. For example, to create a scope for a simple test that checks equality.

Learn the importance of unit tests in Nuxt applications and discover how to use Vitest, nuxt-vitest, and @vue/test-utils to test Nuxt components and pages.

Introduction

Introduction to Vue.js

Getting Started with NuxtJS

NuxtJS Rendering Modes

Routing

Plugins

Layouts

Pages

Components

API Endpoints, Middleware, and Server-Side State Management

Putting It All Together

Deployment

Create a Stock Monitor Application Using NuxtJS

Conclusion

Appendix

Configure Unit Tests

Testing with Vitest