Playing with vue@next, maybe gonna make a Vue alternative to react-static-boilerplate.

Why? For a blog that can be rendered to static HTML (pipe readable stream to file, or into res in express), but also have nice interactive tutorials, and for UI elements as components. React can do this, but is bigger (44kb vs 14) - which is not a huge deal. But Vue is simpler, can choose between templates or render functions for components, there will probably be a JSX template option later too (right now there is already pug (i.e. jade)).

Links

• Announcing Vue.js 2.0
• Vue v2 features
• vue-server-renderer
• v2 (incomplete) docs
• Auth0: Create an App in VueJS 2

SPA

To run an SPA with Vue:

npm start

Files of relevance:

• app.js (entry point to SPA, mounts app to root div)
• any component files (.vue)

SSR

To run a streaming server render (with bundled app):

npm run render

Files of relevance:

• src/server/entry.js + webpack.node.js = makes a node safe bundle of the app. This file exports a function that takes context (which will be provided by renderer) and returns a Promise that resolves to the root Vue instance. Then it is actually quite simple to do your server side hydration, just do it using options from context (e.g. url), then resolve.
• src/server/index.js - gets contents of bundle as string, passes that in as code to the bundleRenderer, which calls a render, can pass in option context object, returns a readable stream of HTML ouput (can also do a callback)

FAQ

What is src/server/simple?

Uses no webpack bundle, so templates need to be handwritten with hyperscript.