Vue CLI Plugin Vuido

A Vue CLI 3 plugin to create Vuido projects.

Getting started with Vuido

With Vuido you can create native desktop applications for Windows, OS X and Linux using Vue. To get started with Vuido, you should read the Vuido introduction.

Prerequisites

Depending on the operating system you are working with, you need to execute one of the following commands before we get started. Read more

OS X

xcode-select --install

Windows

npm install --global --production windows-build-tools

Linux

sudo apt install build-essential libgtk-3-dev

Installation

Open a terminal in the directory of your Vue CLI 3 project. To add Vuido to your project, simply run:

vue add @herteleo/vuido

And follow the instructions shown in the terminal.

Sugar: You can now remove Vue from the projects dependencies by running npm remove vue.

Working with git? You should add packages/ to your .gitignore.

Usage

The plugin replaces the commands for vue-cli-service serve and vue-cli-service build with Vuido specific commands, so you can develop and package your Vuido app comfortably.

Commands

You will only use commands, you already know from Vue.

npm run serve

Builds the Vue application in development mode with webpack's watch flag and starts the Vuido application with nodemon. Everytime the app code changes, the app will rebuild and restart automatically.

npm run build

Builds the Vue application in production mode and launchui-packager packs the Vue code into an executable Vuido application.

Configuration (is optional)

The plugin works out of the box without any further configuration. But... You have the ability to customize your build/package output after your needs. The plugin uses cosmiconfig under the hood. That means you can create a config by including a vuido property into your project's package.json or by creating one of these files:

• .vuidorc in JSON or YAML format
• .vuidorc.json
• .vuidorc.yaml, or .vuidorc.yml
• .vuidorc.js, or vuido.config.js exporting a JS object

The config is divided into multiple sections to reach all platforms independently. Plus there is a general section to define shared properties.

All properties listed at the launchui-packager documentation can be used.

Example

Here is an example config file written in .vuidorc (JSON) format:

{
  "general": {
    "name": "My App Name",
    "company": "My Company",
    "overwrite": true
  },
  "darwin": {
    "icon": "./path/to/icon/file.icns"
  },
  "linux": {
    "name": "my-app-name",
    "pack": "zip"
  },
  "win32": {
    "icon": "./path/to/icon/file.ico"
  }
}

The general part is used by all platforms and can be overridden by identical platform specific properties (see name in linux).

E.g. icons for Windows must have the .ico format and Mac expects a .icns file. So you may want to specify the icon independently.

Valid platforms are darwin (Mac OS), linux and win32 (Windows).

Defaults

Property	Default value
name	name value from package.json
version	version value from package.json
entry	./dist/app.js
out	./packages/
platform	automatically resolved by os.platform()

Updating

After updating the plugin you should run vue invoke @herteleo/vuido to receive the latest changes.

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License

@herteleo/vue-cli-plugin-vuido is licensed under the MIT license.

Copyright (C) 2019 Leonard Hertel