use html-webpack-plugin, better caching, handle 404

build/webpack.base.config.js

@@ -3,11 +3,22 @@ const vueConfig = require('./vue-loader.config')
 
 module.exports = {
   devtool: '#source-map',
-  entry: './src/client-entry.js',
+  entry: {
+    app: './src/client-entry.js',
+    vendor: [
+      'es6-promise',
+      'firebase/app',
+      'firebase/database',
+      'vue',
+      'vue-router',
+      'vuex',
+      'vuex-router-sync'
+    ]
+  },
   output: {
     path: path.resolve(__dirname, '../dist'),
     publicPath: '/dist/',
-    filename: 'client-bundle.js'
+    filename: '[name].[chunkhash].js'
   },
   module: {
     noParse: /es6-promise\.js$/, // avoid webpack shimming process

build/webpack.client.config.js

 const webpack = require('webpack')
 const base = require('./webpack.base.config')
 const vueConfig = require('./vue-loader.config')
+const HTMLPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin')
+const ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin')
+const SWPrecachePlugin = require('sw-precache-webpack-plugin')
 
 const config = Object.assign({}, base, {
   resolve: {
@@ -12,16 +15,22 @@ const config = Object.assign({}, base, {
     // strip comments in Vue code
     new webpack.DefinePlugin({
       'process.env.NODE_ENV': JSON.stringify(process.env.NODE_ENV || 'development')
+    }),
+    // extract vendor chunks for better caching
+    new webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin({
+      name: 'vendor',
+      filename: '[name].[chunkhash].js'
+    }),
+    // generate output HTML
+    new HTMLPlugin({
+      template: 'src/index.template.html'
     })
   ])
 })
 
 if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') {
   // Use ExtractTextPlugin to extract CSS into a single file
-  // so it's applied on initial render
-  const ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin')
-  const SWPrecachePlugin = require('sw-precache-webpack-plugin')
-
+  // so it's applied on initial render.
   // vueConfig is already included in the config via LoaderOptionsPlugin
   // here we overwrite the loader config for <style lang="stylus">
   // so they are extracted.
@@ -33,7 +42,7 @@ if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') {
   }
 
   config.plugins.push(
-    new ExtractTextPlugin('styles.css'),
+    new ExtractTextPlugin('styles.[hash].css'),
     // this is needed in webpack 2 for minifying CSS
     new webpack.LoaderOptionsPlugin({
       minimize: true

package.json

@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@
     "es6-promise": "^3.2.1",
     "express": "^4.14.0",
     "firebase": "^3.4.1",
+    "html-webpack-plugin": "^2.24.1",
     "lru-cache": "^4.0.1",
     "serialize-javascript": "^1.3.0",
     "serve-favicon": "^2.3.0",
-    "sw-precache-webpack-plugin": "^0.5.1",
     "vue": "^2.0.0",
     "vue-router": "^2.0.0",
     "vue-server-renderer": "^2.0.0",
@@ -31,14 +31,15 @@
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "autoprefixer": "^6.4.0",
-    "cross-env": "^2.0.0",
-    "css-loader": "^0.25.0",
     "buble": "^0.14.2",
     "buble-loader": "^0.3.2",
+    "cross-env": "^2.0.0",
+    "css-loader": "^0.25.0",
     "extract-text-webpack-plugin": "^2.0.0-beta.3",
     "file-loader": "^0.9.0",
     "stylus": "^0.54.5",
     "stylus-loader": "^2.1.2",
+    "sw-precache-webpack-plugin": "^0.5.1",
     "url-loader": "^0.5.7",
     "vue-loader": "^9.7.0",
     "webpack": "^2.1.0-beta.25",

server.js

@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ const isProd = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production'
 
 const fs = require('fs')
 const path = require('path')
-const resolve = file => path.resolve(__dirname, file)
 const express = require('express')
 const favicon = require('serve-favicon')
-const serialize = require('serialize-javascript')
 const compression = require('compression')
+const serialize = require('serialize-javascript')
+const resolve = file => path.resolve(__dirname, file)
 
 // https://github.com/vuejs/vue/blob/next/packages/vue-server-renderer/README.md#why-use-bundlerenderer
 const createBundleRenderer = require('vue-server-renderer').createBundleRenderer
@@ -16,13 +16,12 @@ const app = express()
 
 // parse index.html template
 const html = (() => {
-  const template = fs.readFileSync(resolve('./index.html'), 'utf-8')
-  const i = template.indexOf('{{ APP }}')
-  // styles are injected dynamically via vue-style-loader in development
-  const style = isProd ? '<link rel="stylesheet" href="/dist/styles.css">' : ''
+  const contentMarker = '<!-- APP -->'
+  const template = fs.readFileSync(resolve('./dist/index.html'), 'utf-8')
+  const i = template.indexOf(contentMarker)
   return {
-    head: template.slice(0, i).replace('{{ STYLE }}', style),
-    tail: template.slice(i + '{{ APP }}'.length)
+    head: template.slice(0, i),
+    tail: template.slice(i + contentMarker.length)
   }
 })()
 
@@ -47,8 +46,8 @@ function createRenderer (bundle) {
   })
 }
 
-app.use(compression({threshold: 0}))
-app.use('/dist', express.static(resolve('./dist')))
+app.use(compression({ threshold: 0 }))
+app.use('/dist', express.static(resolve('./dist'), { maxAge: 60 * 60 * 24 * 30 }))
 app.use(favicon(resolve('./src/assets/logo.png')))
 
 app.get('*', (req, res) => {
@@ -61,7 +60,9 @@ app.get('*', (req, res) => {
   const context = { url: req.url }
   const renderStream = renderer.renderToStream(context)
 
-  res.write(html.head)
+  renderStream.once('data', () => {
+    res.write(html.head)
+  })
 
   renderStream.on('data', chunk => {
     res.write(chunk)
@@ -81,6 +82,10 @@ app.get('*', (req, res) => {
   })
 
   renderStream.on('error', err => {
+    if (err && err.code === '404') {
+      res.status(404).end('404 | Page Not Found')
+      return
+    }
     // Render Error Page or Redirect
     res.status(500).end('Internal Error 500')
     console.error(`error during render : ${req.url}`)

index.html → src/index.template.html

@@ -6,10 +6,8 @@
     <meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
     <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no, minimal-ui">
     <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
-    {{ STYLE }}
   </head>
   <body>
-    {{ APP }}
-    <script src="/dist/client-bundle.js"></script>
+    <!-- APP -->
   </body>
 </html>

src/router/index.js

@@ -18,6 +18,6 @@ export default new Router({
     { path: '/job/:page(\\d+)?', component: createListView('job') },
     { path: '/item/:id(\\d+)', component: ItemView },
     { path: '/user/:id', component: UserView },
-    { path: '*', redirect: '/top' }
+    { path: '/', redirect: '/top' }
   ]
 })

src/server-entry.js

@@ -8,16 +8,22 @@ const isDev = process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production'
 // Since data fetching is async, this function is expected to
 // return a Promise that resolves to the app instance.
 export default context => {
+  const s = isDev && Date.now()
+
   // set router's location
   router.push(context.url)
+  const matchedComponents = router.getMatchedComponents()
 
-  const s = isDev && Date.now()
+  // no matched routes
+  if (!matchedComponents.length) {
+    return Promise.reject({ code: '404' })
+  }
 
   // Call preFetch hooks on components matched by the route.
   // A preFetch hook dispatches a store action and returns a Promise,
   // which is resolved when the action is complete and store state has been
   // updated.
-  return Promise.all(router.getMatchedComponents().map(component => {
+  return Promise.all(matchedComponents.map(component => {
     if (component.preFetch) {
       return component.preFetch(store)
     }