samtgarson/vueport-example

An example Rails application using Vueport gem

#Vueport Example

This is a bare bones application which uses the Vueport gem to work with Vue JS components in a Rails application.

Setup

git clone https://github.com/samtgarson/vueport-example.git

cd vueport-example

bundle install
yarn install # or npm install if you have to

foreman start

Then open locahost:5000 and you should see our basic greeting.

Docker

We require three Docker containers to run this application in development and production:

• Rails (/Dockerfile)
• Node (/renderer/Dockerfile) - runs the node server used for SSR
• Webpack (/Dockerfile.webpack) - runs the webpack development server which compiles during devlopment and handles things like Hot Module Reloading

We also have a docker-compose.yml for composing the containers needed in development.

Setup

git clone https://github.com/samtgarson/vueport-example.git

docker-compose build
docker-compose up

##Steps up to now

1. Created a new Rails app including a single route, controller and view for our home page
2. Clear out the unecessary Railsy assets stuff as we're using shiny Webpack
3. Ran rails g vueport:install
4. Created our Vue component, greeting and added it to the home page
5. Done 👌

Note: You might notice I use yarn to install our JS dependencies, rather than NPM. In my experience yarn is not only faster, but importantly also provides us with a lockfile which has already proved it's worth.