How to run production site after build vue cli

node.js Vuejs2 Production Environment Vue Cli

node.js Problem Overview

I'm using VueCLI 2 and build as production. THe build.js is built and compiled into 200KB. When I re-run the server as development, it loaded 3MB. I'm sure the build.js inside dist folder is 200KB. I tried to open index.html but it doesn't work and redirect to root directory on website.

Package.json

"scripts": {
  "dev": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development webpack-dev-server --open --hot",
  "build": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production webpack --progress --hide-modules"
},

Webpack

module.exports = { ...
module:{
 ...
 plugins: [
  new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
    $: 'jquery',
    jquery: 'jquery',
    'window.jQuery': 'jquery',
    jQuery: 'jquery'
  })
 ],
 devtool: '#eval-source-map'
},
...
}

if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') {
  module.exports.devtool = '#source-map'
  // http://vue-loader.vuejs.org/en/workflow/production.html
  module.exports.plugins = (module.exports.plugins || []).concat([
   new webpack.DefinePlugin({
    'process.env': {
     NODE_ENV: '"production"'
   }
  }),
  new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({
    sourceMap: true,
    compress: {
     warnings: true
    }
  }),
  new webpack.LoaderOptionsPlugin({
    minimize: true
  }),
  new webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin({
    name: 'vendor',
    minChunks: function (module) {
      return module.context && module.context.indexOf('node_modules') !== -1;
    }
  })
 ])
}

HTML

<body>
  <script src="/dist/vendor.js"></script>
  <script src="/dist/main.js"></script>
</body>

Command

> npm run build > > npm run dev

node.js Solutions

Solution 1 - node.js

npm run build creates a dist directory with a production build of your app.

In order to serve index.html in a browser you need an HTTP server.

For example serve:

npm install -g serve
serve -s dist

The default port is 5000, but can be adjusted using the -l or --listen flags:

serve -s build -l 4000

Docs:

Solution 2 - node.js

Production build can be run locally by utilizing Vue CLI's tooling simply by running:

vue-cli-service serve --mode production

For convenience, this can be added to package.json scripts:

"scripts": {
    "serve": "vue-cli-service serve",
    "build": "vue-cli-service build",
    "lint": "vue-cli-service lint",
    "production": "vue-cli-service serve --mode production"
  }

Command:

$ npm run production

Solution 3 - node.js

Very easy with express, and highly extensible/configurable.

Install

npm install -D express

Compose

server.js

// optional: allow environment to specify port
const port = process.env.PORT || 8080

// wire up the module
const express = require('express') 
// create server instance
const app = express() 
// bind the request to an absolute path or relative to the CWD
app.use(express.static('dist'))
// start the server
app.listen(port, () => console.log(`Listening on port ${port}`))

Execute

node server.js

Solution 4 - node.js

The Vue CLI tooling (vue-cli-service serve --mode production) still seemed to be serving the development files for me, albeit with process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production'.

To serve the contents of dist, the following worked for me without having to install any extra packages:

npm run build
npx serve dist

With custom port and SSL key/certificate:

npx serve dist -l 8095 --ssl-cert .\cert.pem --ssl-key .\cert-key.pem

You can also put this command into your package.json, e.g.

  "scripts": {
    "serve": "vue-cli-service serve",
    "prod": "npx serve dist",
    ...
  }

Then just do:

npm run prod

Solution 5 - node.js

Build should be deployed to the server, Hence, I don't think that there is any inbuilt way in vue-cli to run build locally.

To run build locally, we need to configure the server separately and run the build on the server as follow,

Install lite server via below command

$ npm install -g lite-server
Add below scripts in package.json

"lite": "lite-server –port 10001",
"start": "npm run lite"
In root directory create bs-config.js file and add below script

module.exports = { port: 3000, server: { baseDir: './dist' } }
Lastly, Run it via below command

$ npm run start

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Solution 1 - node.js	Gabriel Bleu	View Answer on Stackoverflow
Solution 2 - node.js	Parag Kutarekar	View Answer on Stackoverflow
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