Vue-Storefront Generator

A yeoman generator for the vue-storefront ecommerce PWA.

Prerequisites

• Yeoman needs to be installed globally (npm install -g yo) to run this generator.
• By default, this generator will be applying additional code that will makes vue-storefront apps easier to work with in a docker environment so both docker and docker-compose are required to run the default generated code.

Getting Started

• Install generator: npm install -g generator-vue-storefront
• Run generator: yo vue-storefront

You will be asked questions regarding your installation, including your project's name. After answering them, a copy of vue-storefront and the vue-storefront-api will be available inside your project folder.

macOS users - Docker for mac limitations

Docker for Mac does not support host network mode.

Solution for you:

1. in the root dir of your generated app, edit ./docker-compose.yaml and remove the line

   network_mode: host

2. in ./vue-storefront/.env change VUE_STORE_API_HOST from http://localhost:8080 to http://vue-api:8080

3. in you /etc/hosts file add the line:

   127.0.0.1       vue-api

Running vue-storefront

Among the files generated, there are docker-compose.yml files that are meant to run vue-storefront and its dependencies. along with .env files containing the default environmental variables.

.
├── vue-storefront-api
│   └── .env
│   └── docker-compose.yml
├── vue-storefront
│   └── .env
│   └── docker-compose.yml
├── docker-compose.yml

If both the vue-storefront and vue-storefront api are generated, one will be placed at the root directory and can be used to build and connect both apps through the following commands:

• docker-compose build to build the images. Volumes have already been assigned in the file to facilitate development in both apps.
• docker-compose up to activate both apps. It is recommended to first initialize elasticsearch (docker-compose up es1) so the service is ready to receive data from the vue-storefront-api.

The vue-storefront-api will, by default, generate the same mock data present in the vue-storefront Demo Site.

Options

Options can be written alongside the generator call to provide answers to the generator's questions in the same command or change the generator's behaviour. The following are the supported options:

• --name: Indicates name of project to which vue-storefront code will be added.
• --api-tag: Indicates which tagged version of the vue-storefront-api you would like to download.
• --tag: Indicates which tagged version of the vue-storefront you would like to download.
• --frontend: Indicates that you only wish for the vue-storefront to be downloaded without the api.
• --backend: Indicates that you only wish for the vue-storefront-api code to be generated.
• --docker-account: Used for modified .travis.yml files. Indicates the dockerhub username to which vue-storefront images can be pushed to.
• --divante: Indicates that you want to generate the exact vue-storefront and vue-storefront-api code.
• --keep-linting: Indicates that you want your vue-storefront project to retain the same linting rules giving by Divante.

Example

yo vue-storefront --name crypto-store --tag 1.9.2 --frontend --divante

The above command will generate a project folder called crypto-store which will contain version 1.9.2 of Divante's vue-storefront without any of our additional code.