First, you'll install a compact server for SPAs so that history mode will work.
In your favorite command line, go inside the directory that will contain your application. Then, type the following commands:
npm install -g history-server history-server .
After the server is run, you will have to point your browser to http://localhost:8080 and if you have a file called index.html in your directory, it will be shown; otherwise you won't see much.
Create a file called index.html and fill in some boilerplate, like in the Choosing a development environment recipe. We want an empty page with only Vue and vue-router as dependencies. Our empty canvas should look like this:
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head> <script src="https://unpkg.com/vue/dist/vue.js"></script> ...
