Vue-cli: `build --server` for server-side rendering and `build --prerender` for prerendering

[xpepermint]

Thanks to @egoist, the new version of this tool 2.8 provides a build command which magically serves or compiles your Vue.js project.

It would be super awesome to extend this and add support for --server options which would create a bundle for using Vue.js application server-side. I built vue-builder for easy building of these bundle files but having something like this as part of vue-cli would be even more awesome.

In most cases I need to pre-render my public Vue.js applications using prerender-spa-plugin. Adding --prerender options would be super awesome :).

[egoist]

Why not use @nuxt ?

[xpepermint]

@egoist Well, instead of having N different frameworks, vue-cli seems a good place to put all the magic ;).

[egoist]

SSR is much different from the current vue build, maybe you can call it vue serve, Nuxt is doing pretty well in this so it's not likely to add such feature.

Prerender is as simple as adding a webpack plugin and is not frequently used.

[alidlorenzo]

I agree Nuxt is great but if you don't need most of what it offers then it doesn't make sense to let a framework take over your application

i.e. if you're querying data with graphql, you don't really need to split components into pages since everything already happens on a per component basis...

Found this issue because I'm considering supporting Vue.js in Rogue. If you find this and are interested, upvote/comment in the the issue so I can know that there's interest https://github.com/alidcastano/rogue.js/issues/70