Clean Layout Architecture for Vue Applications

fotis adamakis

Layout is an essential pattern to reduce code repetition and create maintainable and professional looking applications.

If you are using Nuxt, a great solution is provided out of the box

But unfortunately, in Vue, the official documentation doesn't address them at all.

This often leads to sub-optimal and hacky solutions to a problem.

After several attempts, I have concluded on an architecture that works well

The Requirements

First, let's establish some rules that our layout architecture needs to meet.

A page should declare the layout and components of each section

Setting up Vue Router

If you are already familiar with View-Router, skip to the next section.

Vue-cli and vite scaffolding provide the option to include it when creating a new project

Install view-router dependencies

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