Demo: https://vue-jekyll.surge.sh
This Repo is a bare-bones template for building static sites that leverage a client-side JS framework for dynamic functionality. It uses NPM, Webpack, Vue, and Jekyll. It uses NPM (and Bundler) to manage the project's dependencies, and improve the development workflow. It uses Webpack to roll up and transpile all the individual modules and components into a single bundeled JS file. It uses Jekyll to bring it all together, build the site, and serve an initial static file to the browser. It uses Vue to render pages on the client side (if JS is supported), and provide any additional dynamic functionality that may be needed.
Why not use Nuxt? Nuxt is great, but if you're working with non-technical writers and editors—why not roll in a nicely baked web-based back end for them to work with. There are a number of nice Jekyll based CMS' to choose from, I like Siteleaf
Take the best parts of a static site workflow and combine them with the new hotness of a client side framework. What you end up with is a great new way to publish content on the modern web. Isomorphic blah blah blah: Use Jekyll to publish the site's pages, and the JSON data behind them—use Vue to build the same pages with the same data. Serve the first static page to the user—if JS is supported, just send the JSON down the wire and build the rest of the pages/content with Vue. If there's no JS support, continue to send pre-rendered static pages down the wire.
- Clone the Repo
npm installbundle installnpm run jekyllfy