Marvel Comics is a pet project of mine, you can use it to find what’s new with Marvel’s universe and to find your favorite comics and characters. Marvels’ Comics came to life due to my habit of spending my evenings researching and coding fun new, things. I built it using Nuxt 3 with Marvels Comics Api.
There are a lot of free APIs in the web development industry to build cool stuff. So one evening I was reading this article about 40 awesome Api’s to inspire your next project. and it got me hooked on creating projects around some of those APIs, and I decided to spend my evenings doing exactly that, Marvel comics was first on the list of those projects.
Technology Stack
Nuxt 3: Chosen for its server-side rendering (SSR) capabilities, enhancing performance by delivering pre-rendered content to users and optimizing SEO for better visibility on search engines. SSR also significantly improves page load times, especially for data-rich apps like Marvels Comics, where heavy API interaction occurs.
Vue 3: Vue's reactivity system and modular architecture provided flexibility for building reusable components, improving both development speed and maintainability. Its lightweight nature allowed for better performance when rendering large amounts of dynamic data.
Marvel API: This powerful API was central to providing real-time, up-to-date comic and character information directly from Marvel's official database. The challenge was managing large datasets while maintaining responsiveness, solved by leveraging Vue 3’s reactivity and Nuxt 3’s efficient server-side processing.
You can check out the website live at https://marvels-comics.vercel.app/
Home
The home page consists of a beautiful hero slider section followed by sliders of what’s new in the marvels universe
Comics
The comic page to view in-depth details of your favorite comic, and more related comics slider underneath.
Comics Search
A Page to search and find your favorite comics from the list of thousands of Marvel’s comics, they have released over the past 70 years.
Character
The character page is to view in-depth details of your favorite character.
Characters
A page to find your favorite character from the wide list of characters in the Marvel universe.
That’s all.
