Quasar — Writing a Web and Mobile Cryptocurrency App with the Same Codebase

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For individual developers or small teams, getting your MVP to market can be slow. This is even more problematic if you’re developing both a web a mobile app for your product. Luckily there are some great frameworks like Flutter, Ionic, and Quasar that you can use to write both your mobile, web, and even desktop apps all with one codebase.

In this article, we’ll be looking at building both a web and mobile app at the same time utilizing Quasar. For those not familiar with Quasar, it utilizes Vue.js along with an extensive set of components, plugins, and many other features. Along with Quasar, we’ll be using the CoinGecko API to show our users CryptoCurrencyData.

App Demo

Getting Started

Creating the Quasar Project

To get started, you’ll need NodeJs installed on your computer. Next, we’ll be installing the Quasar CLI using the following command:

npm install -g @quasar/cli

After the CLI has completed installation, open a terminal, cd into your desired directory, and run the following command to create the…