Vue-cli: vue serve not working, and not outputting anything

Created on 16 Mar 2018 · 11Comments · Source: vuejs/vue-cli

Version

2.9.3

Reproduction link

https://www.raymondcamden.com

Steps to reproduce

Please forgive the invalid "Link to minimal reproduction". I do not understand why this is required for a CLI issue? It isn't code related.

I installed @vue/cli-service-global and trying to use "vue serve" returns nothing. No error, no output, just zip.

What is expected?

That it would start up a development server.

What is actually happening?

Nothing.

Source

cfjedimaster

Most helpful comment

Oh, I just realized you are running 2.9.3? Well, vue serve is a command of vue-cli 3.0. Where did you learn about this command if not in the 3.0 docs?

Additionally, even if you were running 3.0, you would still have to provide a file to serve:

vue serve App.vue

See: https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli/blob/dev/docs/cli.md#vue-serve

it just does nothing as well. I'm assuming that should be another bug report (or enhancement request)?

Theoretically, yes. But I think we won't improve 2.* anymore in such ways, only fix major bugs.

LinusBorg on 16 Mar 2018

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FYI, I've tried this on WSL and powershell - no luck so far.

cfjedimaster on 16 Mar 2018

Ditto for OSX.

cfjedimaster on 16 Mar 2018

trying to use "vue serve" returns nothing.

Trying how? If you can't provide a repository with runnable reproduction code, at least be more specific that 4 words, even if you are sure you followed the docs.

This is the reason we do ask for a reproduction by default - and while it would indeed be a bit overly complicated to produce a reproduction of an issue with vue-cli-service-global and a simply vue serve App.vue, it is useful even for most reports on the cli, just to be sure to have all the same dependencies and choices as the author of the issue.

LinusBorg on 16 Mar 2018

But that's all I did - I typed "vue serve". And hit enter of course. The CLI didn't error but didn't do anything else either. How would I create a reproduction of a CLI issue?

cfjedimaster on 16 Mar 2018

As an additional comment, I notice that the vue cli doesn't seem to do anything on a bad command. So for exampe, "vue foo" or "vue dkjlfdsjlkfsdlkjfsdkljsfdkljsflk" doesn't return an error, it just does nothing as well. I'm assuming that should be another bug report (or enhancement request)?

cfjedimaster on 16 Mar 2018

Oh, I just realized you are running 2.9.3? Well, vue serve is a command of vue-cli 3.0. Where did you learn about this command if not in the 3.0 docs?

Additionally, even if you were running 3.0, you would still have to provide a file to serve:

vue serve App.vue

See: https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli/blob/dev/docs/cli.md#vue-serve

it just does nothing as well. I'm assuming that should be another bug report (or enhancement request)?

Theoretically, yes. But I think we won't improve 2.* anymore in such ways, only fix major bugs.

LinusBorg on 16 Mar 2018

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Here - and I totally skipped over the installation part as I already have it installed, but I see the he documents needing 3. Sigh - sorry.

That being said, does 3.x handle unknown commands better?

cfjedimaster on 16 Mar 2018

That being said, does 3.x handle unknown commands better?

Yes.

Akryum on 16 Mar 2018

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You need to create a main.js or index.js or app.vue or App.vue for vue serve to work with Vue Cli 3...

Good Luck...

appsparkler on 1 Jan 2019

The package name changed from vue-cli to @vue/cli. If you have the previous vue-cli (1.x or 2.x) package installed globally, you need to uninstall it first with npm uninstall vue-cli -g or yarn global remove vue-cli.

lucio-lu on 18 Apr 2019

Got the same problem and changed from vue-cli to @vue/cli as lucio-lu suggested. Problem solved.
You can use your vue file directly, ie, vue serve mycomponent.vue ...