Building a Stunning Gym Website with Vue.js and Buefy
When it comes to building a website for your business, there are numerous factors to consider. From speed and clean UI design to navigation, usability, and calls to action, every aspect plays a crucial role in defining your users’ experience. In this article, we’ll explore how to build a simple yet impressive website for a gym using Vue.js and Buefy, covering all the essential factors.
Introducing Vue.js
Vue.js is a popular JavaScript library used for building frontend applications and single-page applications (SPAs). Its flexibility and versatility have made it a favorite among developers, with companies like Grammarly, GitLab, Behance, and Louis Vuitton relying on it for their products and applications.
Setting Up Vue.js
Getting started with Vue.js is a breeze. Using npm, install the Vue CLI and create a new project. Select the default preset, which includes Babel, ESLint, and other essential dependencies. Once set up, navigate to your project directory and serve the project on your localhost.
Buefy: A Lightweight UI Component Library
Buefy is a lightweight UI component library for Vue.js, built on top of Bulma. With over 200,000 developers using it and 40,000 stars on GitHub, Buefy is a popular choice for building modern and responsive UI components.
Project Folder Structure
The Vue.js folder structure is easy to understand. For this tutorial, we’ll focus on the src folder, which contains the assets folder for storing images, videos, and audio files, as well as the components folder for our project’s components.
Building Our Site with Buefy
Index.html
The index.html file is the entry point for our HTML, providing an element for Vue.js to load into. We’ll modify it to include the title “Web Service” and add a script tag to use Font Awesome for icons.
Styles.css
We’ve created custom styles for our project, which you can copy and paste into your styles.css file in the public folder.
Main.js
The main.js file initializes the root component into an element on our page and sets up plugins and third-party components. We’ll import and specify Buefy to use its UI components.
Components
We’ll create several components, including:
Navigation Bar Component
Create a navbar folder inside the components folder and add the navigation bar code. We’ll use Buefy’s b-navbar and b-navbar-item components to create a navigation bar with Home, About, Services, and Contact items.
Testimonials Section
Create a testimonials folder inside the components folder and add the testimonials code. We’ll use Buefy’s b-icon component to display icons and cards to display testimonials.
Features Section
Create a features folder inside the components folder and add the features code. We’ll display our core services using Buefy’s UI components.
Newsletter Section
Create a newsletter folder inside the components folder and add the newsletter code. We’ll use Buefy’s b-input component to get input from visitors and bind it to a value of type email.
Footer
Create a footer folder inside the components folder and add the footer code. We’ll display external links and information, and define a year prop to easily change the copyright year.
App.vue
The App.vue file is the root of our application, defining the template for our page(s). We’ll import all our components and render them accordingly in our templates.
Running and Deploying Our Website
Once we’ve built our website, we can run it using npm run serve and deploy it to a production environment using npm run build. Follow this guide to deploy on Netlify.
By leveraging Vue.js and Buefy, we’ve created a stunning website for our gym that showcases its services and features. With Buefy’s modern and responsive UI components, we’ve saved time and effort while building a website that looks and feels amazing.