vue-webpack-boilerplate

A full-featured Webpack setup with hot-reload, lint-on-save, unit testing & css extraction, starting express api.

This template is Vue 2.0 compatible. For Vue 1.x use this command: vue init webpack#1.0 my-project

Documentation

• For this template: common questions specific to this template are answered and each part is described in greater detail
• For Vue 2.0: general information about how to work with Vue, not specific to this template

Usage

This is a project template for vue-cli. It is recommended to use npm 3+ for a more efficient dependency tree.

$ npm i -g vue-cli
$ vue init stefanonepa/vuejs-webpack-express my-project
$ cd my-project
$ npm i
$ npm run dev
$ cd publish
$ npm i
$ npm run start

What's Included

• npm run dev: first-in-class development experience.

  • Webpack + vue-loader for single file Vue components.
  • State preserving hot-reload
  • State preserving compilation error overlay
  • Lint-on-save with ESLint
  • Source maps
  • Proxy of the minimalist express api

• npm run build: Production ready build.

  • JavaScript minified with UglifyJS.
  • HTML minified with html-minifier.
  • CSS across all components extracted into a single file and minified with cssnano.
  • All static assets compiled with version hashes for efficient long-term caching, and a production index.html is auto-generated with proper URLs to these generated assets.
  • All compiled files are copied in publish/static folder who is publish by the default express api

• npm run unit: Unit tests run in PhantomJS with Karma + Mocha + karma-webpack.

  • Supports ES2015 in test files.
  • Supports all webpack loaders.
  • Easy mock injection.

• npm run e2e: End-to-end tests with Nightwatch.

  • Run tests in multiple browsers in parallel.
  • Works with one command out of the box:
    • Selenium and chromedriver dependencies automatically handled.
    • Automatically spawns the Selenium server.

Fork It And Make Your Own

You can fork this repo to create your own boilerplate, and use it with vue-cli:

vue init username/repo my-project