The canonical way to work with Vue projects, and the one officially supported by the Vue community, involves the use of npm and in particular an npm package named vue-cli.
If you are not familiar with npm, put it on your list of things to do, especially if you plan to develop with JavaScript extensively.
Briefly stated, npm is a tool to organize and share your code, beyond using other people's code in your projects. More formally, it's a package manager for everything JavaScript. We will use some basic commands now and some more advanced later in the book, but you are invited to learn more by yourself:
- Install npm. As it's bundled in Node.js, the best route to follow is to install Node.js directly. You will find ...
