fratomic-alive

DEPRECATED, use https://gitlab.com/contextualcode/fratomic-alivue instead, as it provides complete Vue3 solution.

Fratomic Alive

Use fratomic tool to build live single page website that uses Vue and API data.

Optionally, can be deployed with Server-Side Rendering.

Installation

1. Make sure you have Vue CLI installed.

2. In your fratomic project root directory:

   npm install --save git+ssh://git@gitlab.com:contextualcode/fratomic-alive#v1.2.1

3. In your fractal.config.js:

   
/*
* Register Vue templates adapter and CLI commands
*/
const { FractalVueAdapter, AliveCli } = require('@contextualcode/fratomic-alive');
fractal.components.set('engine', FractalVueAdapter);
fractal.components.set('ext', '.vue');
new AliveCli(fractal);

// for theme definition, adds "Live preview" button
webUITheme.addLoadPath(uiLibRoot + 'node_modules/@contextualcode/fratomic-alive/webui-mono');

• You can use full vue file definition, as in "examples/address.vue".
  Or, you can keep it short with template only, as in "examples/button.vue".
  For shortened version, fratomic-alive will generate script tag automatically,
  based on "*.config.json" context.

• Update your fratomic components configs to contain alive configs where needed.

  {
"alive": {
"pageIdentifier": "frontpage",
"pageIdentifier": ["frontpage", "folder"],
"lazy": false,
"chunkName": "search",
"exclude": true,
"routing": {
"route": "/searchRequired",
"name": "optionalName",
"metaTitle": "(optional) Search page - Project Name",
"metaKeywords": "(optional) find, search, look for result",
"metaDescription": "(optional) This page allows search by keyword"
}
}
}

  pageIdentifier can be array or string.
  Defines which page component use for an API response.

routing needed only if you want to display it without API URL.

lazy (default: true). Applicable only for pages and routes.
true - loaded on demand. false - bundled with main app script.

exclude (default: false). If true - component excluded from build to live project.

chunkName (default: null). Applicable only for lazy pages and routes.
null - unique chunk name generated, so bundled separately from others.
"some-string" - bundled into named chunk, useful when components placed on the same page.

All parameters optional, and you can skip "alive" too.

• Generate vue project.

  fratomic boilerplate -o ../relative/path/to/live-vue-project-name

  This should be one-time action, feel free to edit generated files.
  In most cases, you'll need update App.vue component to add header, footer, etc.

• Build components from fratomic

  fratomic buildalive -o ../relative/path/to/live-vue-project-name

• Update configuration in path/to/live-vue-project-name/.env.

  Tip: You can use .env.local for local override.

• Configure links to ignore in src/handler/PageHandler.js if needed.

  We ignore links to pdf and image files by default.

• By default, page data loaded from /api/${window.location.href} and expects structure like this:

  {
"type": "page type defined in `pageIdentifier`",
"data": {
"attribute name used as prop for the Component": "value",
"metaTitle": "",
"metaKeywords": "",
"metaDescription": ""
}
}

  Fields metaTitle, metaKeywords, metaDescription used to build page head tags,
  and removed from props by default.

If you prefer other API structure for component props or meta, you can customize it in src/handler/PageHandler.js.

• Build and start project cd /path/to/live-vue-project-name
npm install
npm run build
npm run start

Styles

• To include styles in fratomic preview, you can add scss in your _preview.vue.

• To include global styles in vue app, you can use scss in your src/App.vue.

  Note: You should place all your styles files in fratomic_folder/src/*, and use relative path for
  @import in fratomic components.

Build will copy all fratomic/src/* files to live-vue-project/src/fratomic/*
(and update pathes in fratomic components).

If you have assets that should be publicly available, use postbuild to copy them, for example:

Docker usage

• Update image: registry.gitlab.com/contextualcode/project/express in docker/docker-compose.yml

• Use express for SSR version (recommended), or nginx to serve without SSR

  
cd /path/to/live-vue-project-name/docker
docker-compose build express
docker push registry.gitlab.com/contextualcode/project/express

docker-compose up express

or:

docker run -d -p 80:3000 registry.gitlab.com/contextualcode/project/express