Build a Vue.js Website in 4 Steps

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34 points·carsoncgibbons··9 comments

This is a full blown advertisement for cosmic.js (which also happens to be down). Although I like the idea of the service, I hate the misleading title/article. And the fact that the service is down doesn't make it any more attractive.

I've been using a combination of Wordpress with custom-type-ui, advanced-custom-fields(pro) and acf-to-rest-api to create admin areas and vue in the public part of the website (with a homemade prerender service).

To us this works really well because we can abstract most of wordpress weirdnesses via the rest api, and reuse vue components from some other bigger projects that don't use wordpress.

As someone who also spends a lot of time abstracting WordPress weirdness, I'd love to know more about your process. Any public writings about it?

This might be a bit outdated now (in a time when backbone was still cool), but you might find the story from QZ interesting:

https://vip.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/building-qz-com-full-tr...

They were working on this problem before the rest API.

This seems to be an alternate URL as the submitted URL is timing out:

https://hackernoon.com/build-a-vue-js-website-in-4-steps-56d...

This seems to be about some website builder, not about vue.js library, or am I wrong?

You're right -- this is astro-turfing. No content specifically about Vue.js. I propose changing the title to something like "Deploying a Cosmic JS Website in 4 Steps".

Website is hosted with GoDaddy - many GoDaddy websites are down today.

Though that does not give me confidence, as Cosmic JS seems like a hosted database/api layer.

Which highlights reason why I could not use them on a project. Can not build a service that is reliant on another service in such a way.

Open Source or go home.

504 Gateway Timeout :(

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