Basic boilerplate for starting small JS projects
Clone down the repo, then run npm install. This will pull down all the assets you need. Since you're probably going to want to start your own project, run git init to initialize a new repo with these files.
This stuff can be hard to figure out the first time, and everyone tries to make it as difficult and verbose as possible. All I want to do is write some code, try some things out, not necessarily start my new enterprise-level project.
To make sure things are working, run npm run serve, which will start up the dev server. Navigate to localhost on the given port, followed by 'app' (the name of the compiled file). So, for example localhost:8080/app. You should see a console log saying "Hello". Make a change to src/index.js, such as changing the console log to say "Hello, World!". Go back to the browser, and you should see the page reload and display your new changes.
If you are satisfied with what you have, just run npm run build, which will actually make the app.js file in bin. If you want to build for production, just run npm run build:prod.
If you think you can make this simpler, let me know with a pull request.
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