Create, Build, and Serve Apps with the Vue CLI

November 19, 2018

We just finished building a single-page Vue app for our Unpacked: Single-Page App course. We used the Vue CLI to generate the initial app and serve it up during development. This video shows how we did that, and also walks through the generated app so you feel confident about using the Vue CLI as a starting point.

Here’s a quick recap of the commands we used in the video to create, build, and serve a Vue app:

Create a new project:
```
vue create my-app
```
Build and serve the generated app on your local machine:
```
cd my-app

npm run serve
```
Build the app for production:
```
 npm run build
```
This bundles everything in the dist directory which is ready to be deployed on your favorite static file server!
To preview the production build locally using the serve NPM package:
```
serve -s dist
```

For more details on using the Vue CLI, check out the official documentation.

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