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Book ID Asin: 1788299582
Book Title: Full-Stack Vue.js 2 and Laravel 5: Bring the frontend and backend together with Vue, Vuex, and Laravel
Book Author: Anthony Gore
Book Format: unknown Book Price: unknown
Book Category: Books, Computers & Technology, Web Development & Design and unknown
Book Rating: 22 ratings

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• Customer Reviews:
  4.3 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

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Book Review

Name: Adam
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good for newbies, not developers.
Date: Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2018
Review: Good book if you want to "get something on the web" for the first time and prefer overpriced books to free youtube videos. Most of its pages are filled with full-page screenshots and CSS leaving a pamphlet worth of real content.

Not good for a developer looking to learn about building a scalable app with Laravel and Vue. Does not actually explain how any of Laravel's "magic" works and thus how you can leverage it to your advantage, mostly just "copy this code and see how your screen looks like mine." This book will lead you down the path of bad and/or antiquated practices and writing inflexible code.

If you want to learn about building with Vue and Laravel, go through a quick Vue tutorial (it's an easy framework especially if it is not your first) and pick up the O'Reilly book "Laravel Up & Running" skipping most of the server-side rendering parts.

Name: Ben Wong
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Book to Learn Vue.js if You Are Already a Laravel Developer
Date: Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2019
Review: I am writing this review partially in response to the 1-star review. After reading his review, I was very skeptical about using this book. I am very familiar with Laravel but wanted to learn how to build Vue.js apps with the Laravel framework. Yes, there are many 15 mins tutorials out there on how to quickly slap a simple Vue.js app in Laravel, but how do you handle routing and authentication between Laravel and Vue.js, how do you pass data from Laravel to Vue.js?

This book actually does a fantastic job accomplishing that without being too verbose or tedious. It starts with you building a prototype app purely in Vue.js with the simplest tools. Then it shows you step by step how it can be rebuilt into the Laravel framework. By the end of the book, the author not only covers all the core concepts and aspects of Vue.js but also shows you how to handle authentication, routing, passing data, etc from Laravel to Vue.js.

I had no problem following along. He only shows you the snippets of code that need to be changed. Sometimes, it is a little harder to figure out where the code is, but it is better than him showing the entire file again and you have to decipher what part actually changed.

Finally, I give this book 4-stars because the name is a little misleading. It is actually a book for Laravel developers to learn Vue.js, not for developers to learn both. Maybe a better name should be "Learning Full-Stack Vue.js 2 using Laravel 5" or "Learning Full-Stack Vue.js 2 for Laravel Developers".

One piece of advice is if you are not familiar with Laravel Mix which is used to build Vue.js apps, you should check out the video series, "Learn Laravel Mix", on Laracasts. It will make things much easier to understand in this book after you go through that tutorial!

Name: Ashley
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Technical Author Review
Date: Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2018
Review: Conceptualising a Single Page Application and piecing together the various aspects without experience can be a tricky task; with the help of this publication, the reader will be building best-practise APIs in no time! As a technical reviewer of the publication, I can confidently recommend "Full-Stack Vue.js and Laravel 5" to developers who are new to the game, or are simply looking to upgrade their existing JavaScript and PHP skills with a popular, modern and elegant full-stack solution. The author guides the reader through numerous foundational topics, while cohesively contributing to the cornerstone project- Vuebnb. Through each chapter, the reader will gain working knowledge of Vue.js and PHP, as well as the concepts associated with building APIs, following best practises and finally- deploying to the cloud in a seamless manner.

Name: Leon de Beer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: If you are going to use VueJS, then this book is going to be a valuable edition.
Date: Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2018
Review: Excellent edition to your reference library as well as for learning VueJS.
What I liked most about Anthony's book is the real-world application used to build out the knowledge on. It's the difference between being given the bare minimum basics of an aspect and then grappling with implementation in a real-world scenario, and being given the theory - as well as sound implementation in a decent sized application.
In so doing you get to learn and experience interaction nuances, not only for VueJS but Laravel as well, which, for me is the best learning experience. The book is also packed with extras you are going to have to master in your VueJS journey and so is one the best investments I've made in my knowledge quest.

Name: Angelyn
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent guide to full stack apps
Date: Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2018
Review: This book does an great job of demonstrating a full stack Vue and Laravel app. I like that the app that you build throughout the book is actually quite realistic and is pretty impressive, unlike other books that make you build some pointless todo app.

In addition to Vue and Laravel, the book does cover a lot of material including Webpack, VueRouter, Vuex, Passport etc, but only really scratches the surface on these. The focus is more on how to use them together in a single app.

My only frustration was having to set up Homestead when I normally use Valet, but it does cover a solid approach to full stack development.

Name: JONATHON R BIRRELL
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Vue intro for Laravel devs
Date: Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2018
Review: There are a number of books now that tackle Vue.js, but this one is my favorite so far. It gets to the point and doesn't waste time rewriting the documentation, instead focusing on application of the concepts. The book is sold as "a masterclass in full stack development with Vue and Laravel" which I think it lives up to.

Could have gotten into more detail on Webpack, though I guess you can't expect everything from a single book.

Name: Oskar
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The best available option to master Vue!
Date: Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2018
Review: I have been working in a production application with Vue and VueX for more than six months, so I already had some experience but always had the feeling we were doing things a little wrong, so I decided to buy this book. Truth is this book covers everything from the very basics to advance usage including VueX stores, I wish I had it in my hands some months ago!

Our application backend was based on Ruby, so I don't really cared about Laravel, but it was also quite interesting (never heard about it).

I recommend this book by all means no matter what your Vue level is. If you never touched it even with a stick, you will be guided from the very beginning and if you already know what you are doing, I'm sure you will find things you were doing wrong or much better ways of doing the same.

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