The CloudWays blog has a new tutorial posted that walks you through the process of getting a Laravel+Vue.js single page application running in less than an hour. The instructions for the server portion cover the use of CloudWays' service but they could be applied to any number of other hosting providers.

Laravel has become the most popular choice for developing PHP projects. One important reason for this popularity is the built in support for Vue.js, a very fast growing JavaScript library for developing impressive front-ends.

This combination results is fast, secure and very impressive applications that need minimum time to go from ideation to final code review. The support for Vue.js means that Laravel developers could use Vue components easily within their apps without wasting time in writing integrations for the components. To demonstrate the support, I decided to create a single page application in Laravel with a Vue.js powered frontend.

They start off with a list of prerequisites (software to have installed) and then move on to setting up the database and creating a "tasks" migration. The tutorial then covers building out the authentication handling (via artisan) and the creation of the "task" model and controller. With all of that in place it starts in on the backend functionality to read, create, update and delete the tasks. Next it moves to the frontend showing how to create the Vue.js components required and integrating the Javascript into the view to link it to the backend for managing the tasks.