Vue Monolith Example

A simple example of how to structure a monolithic Vue application, with the frontend and backend both living within the same codebase.

Development

NOTE: This project relies on Yarn as an alternative to NPM. To install Yarn, follow these instructions.

To start your development server:

yarn dev

Once it's started, you'll see a local URL you can use to access it (by default, http://localhost:8080 if it's available). Note that all routes starting with /api/ are automatically proxied to your backend server.

Deployment

Using Now

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Using Heroku

1. Only the first time, to create your app:

   heroku create

2. Push the Git branch you want to deploy to Heroku:

   git push heroku branch-to-deploy:master

Manual deployment

During your build process, make sure to:

1. Install dependencies, using the exact versions in your lockfile

   yarn install --frozen-lockfile

2. Build the frontend

   yarn build

Then start your application with:

yarn start

By default, it will be available at http://localhost:9090, but the port can be configured with a PORT environment variable.