The Laravel News site is back with the latest part in their series covering the combination of Laravel and Vue.js to create a basic application. In this latest part (part 3) they continue from the previous tutorials and show how to pull in real data versus the fake data from before.

We will continue building our Vue SPA with Laravel by showing you how to load asynchronous data before the vue-router enters a route.

We left off in Building a Vue SPA With Laravel Part 2 finishing a UsersIndex Vue component which loads users from an API asynchronously. We skimped on building a real API backed by the database and opted for fake data in the API response from Laravel’s factory() method.

If you haven’t read Part 1 and Part 2 of building a Vue SPA with Laravel, I suggest you start with those posts first and then come back. I’ll be waiting for you!

In this tutorial, we are also going to swap out our fake /users endpoint with a real one powered by a database.

They get immediately back to the code, creating a "user" table seeder to generate randomized data and adding it for execution. Next, they switch to the database side, creating the MySQL database for the user data and running the seeding to create the users. The tutorial then shows the creation of the Users controller and what the resulting JSON will look like when pulling all users. Finally, it moves out to the client side and shows how to pull in the data pre-load and push the user details into a template to be rendered.