Hi Adam,
This week’s edition is all about building Vue applications that stay secure, scalable, and ready for real production demands.
We’re covering one of the most important parts of any serious app – authentication – with a new Vue School article on integrating Better Auth into Nuxt from scratch.
We’re also wrapping up the Pinia Colada course with the final lessons now live, sharing an opportunity to speak at Frontend Nation, and highlighting Unlearn, a new learning platform built for the AI era.
Here’s what’s inside this week:
- A new Vue School blog post on robust Nuxt authentication with Better Auth
- Final lessons in the Pinia Colada course
- Frontend Nation updates and Call for Speakers
- A practical tip from Daniel Kelly
- News from the BitterBrains ecosystem
Let’s dive in.
Latest courses, articles and tutorials
Robust Nuxt Authentication with Better Auth
Authentication is one of those features every serious web application needs, yet it’s also one of the easiest to get wrong.
In this new article, we walk through integrating Better Auth into a Nuxt application from scratch, covering email/password login, GitHub social auth, route protection, sessions, middleware, and extensibility through plugins.
The article also explores why Better Auth is gaining traction in the Nuxt ecosystem: it’s TypeScript-first, framework-agnostic, secure by default, and built to support real production requirements like two-factor authentication, rate limiting, and organization management.
By the end, you’ll have a working authentication setup and a clear path for extending it as your application grows.
Pinia Colada: Scalable Data Handling in Vue is now complete
New course for structured, predictable, and type-safe server state management to Vue
The final lessons of Pinia Colada: Scalable Data Handling in Vue are now live, completing the course.
New lessons:
- Lesson 21. Pinia Colada Challenge Solution (Queries)
- Lesson 22. Pinia Colada Challenge Solution (Mutations)
- Lesson 23. Course Conclusion
In the new lessons, you will look at the solution for the task manager challenge. Specifically, you see how useQuery is used to fetch data for the list of tasks and an individual task. You will also look at the solution for the task manager challenge. Specifically, to see how useMutation is used to create new tasks, update existing tasks, and delete tasks.
By the end of the course, you’ll know how to:
- fetch and manage API data cleanly using queries
- keep your UI in sync with the server using mutations
- eliminate unnecessary network requests with smart caching
- build faster interfaces with optimistic updates
- structure data flows so your app scales more gracefully
⭐ Course recommendation
Visual Studio Code for Vue.js Developers
25 lessons · 2 hours
As a Vue.js developer, your code editor is one of the tools you’ll rely on every single day. This course shows how to get the most out of Visual Studio Code – the officially recommended IDE for Vue.js development. It’s a great choice if you want to improve your workflow, work more efficiently, and build stronger day-to-day development habits from the start.
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