I have a dist folder containing CSS, fonts, JS folder and an index.html file minimized for Vue.js, ready to deploy and use. I want to use Node.js to run this application. How can I set this up to just run npm run server and have it deployed on a specific port requested? Not sure how to structure this or if I need to build it in a specific way to run this Vue app. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Since Vue is only a frontend library, the easiest way to host it and do things like serve up assets is to create a simple Express friendly script that you can use to start a mini-web server. Read up quickly on Express if you haven’t already. After that, add express:
npm install express --save
Now add a server.js file to your project’s root directory :
// server.js
var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var serveStatic = require('serve-static');
app = express();
app.use(serveStatic(__dirname + "/dist"));
var port = process.env.PORT || 5000;
var hostname = '127.0.0.1';
app.listen(port, hostname, () => {
console.log(`Server running at http://${hostname}:${port}/`);
});
after that you could run :
node server
and your project will be served at the given host and port
Assuming that you have already the dist directory, if you don't have it run :
npm run build
in order to generate it
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Zeus
Perfect explanation. Exactly what I needed to get it going. I do use express for the back end, so this made a lot of sense. Thank you
npm run serveand you search another command to deploy?npm run(server or server-dev) script