Building with AdonisJS & Inertia

Building with AdonisJS & Inertia

Intermediate
35 Lessons
4h 46m

We'll learn how to use InertiaJS with AdonisJS 6 to build a feature-complete application, called PlotMyCourse. Our application will use server-side rendering (SSR), Vue 3, and Shadcn-Vue. It'll feature organizations, drag-and-drop, and lots of forms.

Module 1 › Getting Started (5 lessons)

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What Is InertiaJS
Lesson 1.0
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Aug 15

What Is InertiaJS?

In this lesson, we'll introduce InertiaJS. We'll discuss what it is, what it helps with, its adapters, and more.

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What We'll Be Building
Lesson 1.1
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Aug 15

What We'll Be Building

At the end of this series, we'll have a feature-complete application with organizations, teams, drag-and-drop ordering, password reset, and more! So, let's take a second to see our end goal and walk through the app.

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Creating Our AdonisJS App With InertiaJS
Lesson 1.2
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Aug 15

Creating Our AdonisJS App With InertiaJS

In this lesson, we'll create a new AdonisJS 6 application with the InertiaJS Starter Kit. We'll then walk through the Inertia-specific aspects of our project structure and briefly discuss the configuration steps taken when adding Inertia.

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SSR vs CSR
Lesson 1.3
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Aug 15

Server-Side Rendering (SSR) vs Client-Side Rendering (CSR)

In this lesson, we'll discuss the differences between InertiaJS in a server-side rendered (SSR) and a client-side rendered (CSR) application. We'll then compare when you would want to choose one over the other and the pros and cons of both.

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Shadcn-vue and TailwindCSS
Lesson 1.4
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Aug 20

Setting Up TailwindCSS, Shadcn-Vue, and Automatic Component Imports

In this lesson, we'll install and configure Shadcn-Vue and TailwindCSS. We'll then set up automatic imports for all of our local Vue components.

Module 2 › The Basics (10 lessons)

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The Flow of Pages and Page Props
Lesson 2.0
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Aug 20

The Flow of Pages and Page Props

In this lesson, we'll talk about the flow InertiaJS follows when rendering pages, from AdonisJS to our Vue application. Then, we'll talk about passing props to our Vue page components.

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Sharing Data from AdonisJS to Vue via Inertia
Lesson 2.1
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Aug 20

Sharing Data from AdonisJS to Vue via Inertia

In this lesson, we'll learn how to pass data from AdonisJS to Vue using Inertia as the broker. We'll discuss passing data from our controllers, from middleware, and globally via the Inertia shared data configuration.

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Linking Between Pages
Lesson 2.2
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Aug 27

Linking Between Pages & Page State Flow

In this lesson, we'll learn how to link from page to page the InertiaJS way. We'll then inspect how InertiaJS gets and updates our page's stateful information via our page props.

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The Link Component
Lesson 2.3
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Aug 27

The Link Component and Programmatic Linking

In this lesson, we'll explore Inertia's Link component and its props. We'll then examine how to link between pages programmatically using Inertia's router.

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Global Components
Lesson 2.4
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Aug 27

Global Components and Hydration Mismatch in Action

In this lesson, we'll learn how to register components globally inside our Vue application. We'll also learn what to watch out for and examine a hydration mismatch in action.

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Partial and Lazy Data Loading
Lesson 2.5
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Aug 27

Partial and Lazy Data Loading and Evaluation

In this lesson, we'll learn about Inertia's partial reload functionality that allows us to refresh only specifically specified prop items for our page. We'll also examine lazy properties and how our props are evaluated with partial reloads.

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Creating A Layout
Lesson 2.6
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Aug 30

Creating A Layout

In this lesson, we'll learn how to create a layout component and apply it to all our pages, the Inertia way.

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Default Layouts and Overwriting the Default
Lesson 2.7
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Aug 30

Default Layouts & Overwriting the Default Layout

In this lesson, we'll inspect how Inertia injects our layout component and the data passed to it. We'll also learn how we can overwrite our default layout from our page components.

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Page Titles and Meta Tags
Lesson 2.8
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Sep 06

Specifying Page Titles & Meta Tags

In this lesson, we'll learn how we can append information into the head of our document with Inertia on a per-page basis. We'll then create our own head component, wrapping Inertia's, to allow easier global changes.

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What Can We Share?
Lesson 2.9
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Sep 06

What Code Can & Can't Be Shared Between AdonisJS & Inertia

In this lesson, we'll discuss what code we can and cannot share between AdonisJS and Inertia.

Module 3 › Working with Forms (7 lessons)

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Inertia Form Basics
Lesson 3.0
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Sep 06

Inertia Form Basics

In this lesson, we'll introduce the basics of working with form in Inertia. We'll set up our register form with its fields, get our form state set up, and send off a post request to one of our AdonisJS routes.

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Form Validation & Displaying Errors
Lesson 3.1
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Sep 06

Form Validation & Displaying Errors

In this lesson, we'll add validation to our POST handler for our register route. We'll then update our form fields to check for and display any validation errors that may have occurred.

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The useForm Helper
Lesson 3.2
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Sep 13

The useForm Helper

In this lesson, we'll introduce the useForm helper composable provided by InertiaJS. We'll refactor our current form to use the useForm helper instead and see how it can help manage our form state, errors, and submission.

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Lesson 3.3
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Sep 13

Common useForm Methods & Options

In this lesson, we'll walk through some of the more common methods and options we have with the useForm helper, like adding form errors, maintaining scroll position, mutating values prior to submission, and more.

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Creating A FormInput Component
Lesson 3.4
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Sep 13

Creating A FormInput Vue Component

In this lesson, we'll create a reusable FormInput Vue Component using our current form field as a starting point.

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Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in InertiaJS
Lesson 3.5
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Sep 13

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Protection in InertiaJS

In this lesson, we'll learn how cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection between AdonisJS and InertiaJS behaves in our application.

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What Are Some of Inertia's Limitations
Lesson 3.6
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Sep 13

What Are Some of Inertia's Limitations

In this lesson, we'll discuss a couple of Inertia's request and routing limitations and how we can circumvent them by reaching for axios or fetch instead.

Module 4 › Database & Project Scaffolding (8 lessons)

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Database Schema
Lesson 4.0
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Sep 20

Understanding Our Database Schema

In this lesson, we'll walk through a diagram of our application's database schema to understand how things relate to one another.

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Defining Our Migrations & Foreign Keys
Lesson 4.1
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Sep 20

Defining Our Migrations & Foreign Keys

In this lesson, we'll create our migrations, models, and some of our controllers. We'll then fill out our migrations and define our relationship's foreign key constraints.

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Defining Our Lucid Models & Relationships
Lesson 4.2
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Sep 20

Defining Our Lucid Models & Relationships

In this lesson, we'll convert our migrations into Lucid Models and define both sides of the relationships so they're ready to go.

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Lucid Model Relationship Mixin
Lesson 4.3
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Sep 27

Creating A Lucid Model Mixin for our Organization Relationship

In this lesson, we'll learn how we can extract repetitive relationships, and other model properties/methods, into a mixin. We'll also learn what to look out for when using decorators within a TypeScript mixin.

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Seeding Our Initial Data
Lesson 4.4
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Sep 27

Seeding Our Initial Database Data

In this lesson, we'll create a seeder file to create the initial data we'll need in our database to get going. For now, that's just going to be our application's roles.

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Model Types with DTOs
Lesson 4.5
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Sep 27

Typing Lucid Models in Inertia with DTOs

In this lesson, we'll learn how we can specify types for our Lucid Models easily using DTOs we'll generate directly from our models.

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AppLayout & NavBar
Lesson 4.6
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Oct 02

Completing Our AppLayout & Navigation Bar

In this lesson, we'll finish setting up our application's layout shell and navigation bar.

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Toast Message Manager
Lesson 4.7
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Oct 02

Creating A Toast Message Manager

Learn how to implement a user feedback manager in your app using toast messages and vue-sonner. We'll integrate our flash message manager with state provided from AdonisJS' flash messages store to display success and error messages.

Module 5 › Authentication & Onboarding (5 lessons)

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Register new users
Lesson 5.0
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Oct 04

User Registration with InertiaJS

In this lesson, we'll complete our user registration flow by validating our registration form data, creating a new user, logging that user in, and forwarding them to the next page in the flow.

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Splitting Our Routes Between Auth & Web
Lesson 5.1
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Oct 04

Splitting Our Routes Between Auth & Web

In this lesson, we'll split our routes into two files: auth and web. Our auth routes file will contain all our authentication-based route definitions and our web routes will contain the remaining.

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Logging Out Users
Lesson 5.2
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Oct 04

Logging Out Users

In this lesson, we'll hook up our logout user menu button to a POST route to logout an authenticated user.

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Onboarding New Users
Lesson 5.3
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Oct 11

Onboarding Newly Registered Users

In this lesson, we'll create our onboarding flow for newly registered users. Before users can enter the application, they'll need to have at least one organization set up so everything works smoothly.

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Login & Exceptions
Lesson 5.4
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Oct 11

Logging In Users & Displaying Exceptions

In this lesson, we'll add the ability to login to our application. We'll then discuss the differences between errors and errorsBag and how we can display long-lived exception messages as an alternative to our toast manager.

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