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How I use Vue.js on GitHub Pages

Tim Bachmann on May 04, 2019

I recently read the Article Serving Vue.js apps on GitHub Pages and it inspired me to write about what I'm doing differently. If you want to see a...

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Ian Kirker • May 5 '19

For the next level of automation, if you set up deploy keys and Travis CI, you can encrypt the private key using Travis’s tools, check the encrypted file into the repo, and then have this script run on Travis every time the master branch is changed (along with a snippet to decrypt the key for use).

Tim Bachmann • May 5 '19

Yes exactly!
Or even better use the functionality that's already built into Travis CI:

TravisCI Github Pages Deployment

Ian Kirker • May 5 '19

Oh, neat, thanks, I hadn’t seen that!

We might still have to use the keys, for organisational repositories, but it’s definitely something I’ll look at.

Tim Bachmann • May 5 '19

Yeah it's both pretty much the same so no real drawbacks either way.

Pablo Calvo • Apr 13 '20

Hey man,

Great post. Really made the trick. To automate the process, i decided to have develop as the dev code branch and then push the dist to master where bitbucket picks it up.

And then using github actions I run this script:

cd dist
git init
git remote add origin git@github.com:coffeestainio/coffeestainio.github.io.git
git add .
git commit -m 'new deploy'
git push --set-upstream origin master -f

And it is automated I can also send over the github pipeline script if you want it.

M. Stevens • May 5 '19

I have a question, what would be the benefits of turning your personal site into a VueJS app as opposed to React?

Tim Bachmann • May 5 '19

I don't think there are any clear advantages for any of the two. It comes down to preference.

For me personally I really like the structure of Vue because it still kinda seperates html from javascript. I'm not a big fan af jsx.

Phiter Fernandes • May 5 '19

I would say the main advantage is using Vue instead of React. It's all about your preference in this case, but I would always go with Vue.

Akinhwan • May 18 '19

how do you serve images? I'm getting confused between /static and /assets. the href I set in the html part of my component works correctly, but in the css section the url i set for background image is not finding in the same path

Tim Bachmann • May 18 '19

The static/ folder is for files like images and css that should not be touched by webpack where as files in the assets/ directory will be processed.

Enrique Melero • May 5 '19

Great article ! And very helpful
Thanks !

Pieter Montoulieu • May 4 '19

Thanks for this dude!
I just recently migrated my personal site to a GitHub user page on master and couldn't figure out a way to get it load properly! 🤘