Every application has data. Let me show you how to store your data in a MongoDB database from an app written with Node.js and Express.js.

What is CRUD

CRUD is an acronym for Create, Read, Update and Delete. CRUD is the operations that you use to:

• create data in a database
• read the data in a database
• update the data in a database
• delete the data in a database

What we will be creating

We will create a simple application where you can store a user’s first and last name in a MongoDB database. Here is what it looks like:

What We’ll Be Creating

We’re going to create a very simple Vue application using the Vue CLI. We’ll modify the default scaffolded application so it provides a form to register as a new user, a login page, and a dashboard page only shown to people that are logged in.

Users will be able to register using an email and password. Once they’ve registered and logged in, they’ll be presented with the dashboard page.

Creating Our Project

I’ll be using the Vue CLI to scaffold out a project for us to start with. To do that, you need to have the Vue CLI installed on your system. …

Firebase provides a very simple and quick way to add authentication to your Vue.js application. In this article, I will show you how easy it is to allow users to register with your application using their email and password.

What We Will Be Creating

We are going to create a very simple Vue application using the Vue CLI. We will modify the default scaffolded application so that it provides a form to register as a new user, a login page, and a dashboard page only shown to people who are logged in.

Users will be able to register with the application using the email and…

Your forms can provide a great user experience. Here is how.

Almost every website today has a form that they ask users to fill out. A basic WordPress blog will have a contact us form. An e-commerce website will have a cart checkout form. Even our local traffic courts have a form to fill out to request rescheduling a court date.

The biggest complaint people have with forms is that they do not provide enough feedback when you are completing the form. Users fill out a form and submit it. …

In this article I will show a quick and easy way to create a Pinterest style layout grid to showcase images. This grid will be responsive meaning that it will automatically resize as the browser window increases or decreases in size.This will display images regardless of their individual height and does not level out all images to have them start on the same row. Instead when the image in a column ends then the next image starts leaving you with a picture board layout where all images are not aligned equally. So let’s get started.

What we will be creating

This is the flowing Pinterest…

Most applications will access data from an API. To access that API you will need to have an API key and the URL to access the API. You should not be pushing your API keys to you repo because that makes them available to everyone. The solution is to store your API keys in environment variables. So how do you access environment variables in a Vue.js application? Let me show you how.

The best way to start is to have a project that was created using the Vue-CLI. If you used this then it automatically setup your project to use…

As the size of your Vue application grows, the number of actions and mutations in your Vuex store grows too. Let me show you how to reduce this to something more manageable.

What is Vuex

Vuex is a state management pattern + library for Vue.js applications. It serves as a centralized store for all the components in an application, with rules ensuring that the state can only be mutated in a predictable fashion.

How we are using Vuex

We are using Vuex to share state between all the applications in our Factory Core Framework application. Since the framework is a bundle of applications, we currently have nine Vuex…

Quick Guide to using echarts and vue-echarts

The heart of every application is displaying data to users. Sometimes it is very challenging to display that data using text. Charts and graphs are a great way to provide a visual representation of that data. In this article, I will show you how easy it is to create visually appealing charts in your Vue.js application.

Getting Started

I will be using the Vue CLI to scaffold out a starter application quickly. I will use both echarts and vue-echarts to add charts to our starter application. So let’s get started.

Install the Vue CLI with…