Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices

Server-Side Rendering (SSR)

Server-Side Rendering allows us to take our frontend JavaScript application and render it to static HTML on the server. This is important as it allows us to significantly speed up our application as the browser only has to parse the critical HTML/CSS. Maximizing performance is a key component of modern day web applications and the expectation continues to grow with progressive web applications and projects such as AMP. Both React, Angular and Vue are capable of SSR using a variety of different patterns.

Let's take a look at how we can achieve a simple Server-Side rendered Vue application:

# Create a new folder named vue-ssr:$ mkdir vue-ssr$ cd vue-ssr# Create a new file named server.js$ touch server.js# Install ...