How Quasar Framework enabled to build a full app in 3 weeks
First: sorry for my english, I am not native — Feel free to correct me if I made any grammatical mistake :-)
Each project is the opportunity to search (again) for the perfect stack
When I built EmailBatch — a web app enabling to create infinite email addresses and to bundle emails together into one email — the first question that I had in mind was: “hmm, which frameworks will I choose this time?”.
I discovered Quasar Framework almost randomly, and it was unexpected. After a reading of the manual, I had immediately a good feeling about it: an impressive list of components, a few lines to describe the deployment. Good sign. In addition, it is using VueJS, which was perfect for me as I feel more comfortable with this language than React.
So, I started to code with Quasar for the frontend, and with Laravel for the backend, which is usual for me as I like Laravel. The API was made with Laravel Dingo, with a MySQL database.
The main difficulty of Quasar: the start!
Objectively I must admit that it was a pain to start with Quasar. Just for one reason: the authentication. I wanted to implement JWT to protect the backend API, and it was not so easy. I selected a few articles but I modified some stuff as it turns that none of them — at least in July…