Vue Blog Posts
The release of Vue 3 introduced two new ways of adding reactivity to data in your components, ref and reactive. There's been a bit of confusion surrounding which one's better, or when either should be used. I'm here to hopefully shed some light on their differences, and show how I use them in my applications.
You keep hearing about this composition API in Vue. But it's a little scary and intimidating, and why it's so much better isn't really all that clear to you. In this article you'll see exactly why you should learn to use it by comparing the old way to the new way. The examples also start out simple and get more complex, so you can see that the composition API isn't really all that different from what you're used to.
Released earlier this year, Laravel Sanctum (formerly Laravel Airlock) is a lightweight package to help make authentication in single-page or native mobile applications as easy as possible. Where before you had to choose between using the web middleware with sessions or an external package like Tymon's jwt-auth, you can now use Sanctum to accomplish both stateful and token-based authentication.
I’ve been working on projects that use both Vue and Laravel for the last two to three years, and during the start of each’s development I have to ask myself “How am I going to pass my data from Laravel to Vue?”. This applies to both applications where the Vue frontend components are tightly coupled to Blade templates, as well as single-page applications running completely separate of the Laravel backend.
Earlier this month I launched listpal.co, a to-do app that included websockets functionality so that each user with the list open would see updates from everyone else. It was definitely a learning experience and my first time really diving into the world of Vue + websockets combined. With the help of the laravel-websockets package, it’s super easy to get a websockets server started in a new (or existing) Laravel application.