update setup (get rid of html plugin)

build/setup-dev-server.js

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ const clientConfig = require('./webpack.client.config')
 const serverConfig = require('./webpack.server.config')
 
 module.exports = function setupDevServer (app, cb) {
-  let bundle, template, clientManifest
+  let bundle, clientManifest
 
   // modify client config to work with hot middleware
   clientConfig.entry.app = ['webpack-hot-middleware/client', clientConfig.entry.app]
@@ -25,11 +25,9 @@ module.exports = function setupDevServer (app, cb) {
   clientCompiler.plugin('done', () => {
     const fs = devMiddleware.fileSystem
     const readFile = file => fs.readFileSync(path.join(clientConfig.output.path, file), 'utf-8')
-    template = readFile('index.html')
     clientManifest = JSON.parse(readFile('vue-ssr-client-manifest.json'))
-    if (bundle && serverManifest) {
+    if (bundle) {
       cb(bundle, {
-        template,
         clientManifest
       })
     }
@@ -51,9 +49,8 @@ module.exports = function setupDevServer (app, cb) {
 
     // read bundle generated by vue-ssr-webpack-plugin
     bundle = JSON.parse(readFile('vue-ssr-bundle.json'))
-    if (template && clientManifest) {
+    if (clientManifest) {
       cb(bundle, {
-        template,
         clientManifest
       })
     }

build/webpack.client.config.js

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ const webpack = require('webpack')
 const merge = require('webpack-merge')
 const base = require('./webpack.base.config')
 const vueConfig = require('./vue-loader.config')
-const HTMLPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin')
 const SWPrecachePlugin = require('sw-precache-webpack-plugin')
 const VueSSRClientPlugin = require('vue-ssr-webpack-plugin').client
 
@@ -32,10 +31,6 @@ const config = merge(base, {
     new webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin({
       name: 'manifest'
     }),
-    // generate output HTML
-    new HTMLPlugin({
-      template: 'src/index.template.html'
-    }),
     new VueSSRClientPlugin()
   ]
 })

server.js

@@ -13,9 +13,12 @@ const serverInfo =
 
 const app = express()
 
+const template = fs.readFileSync(resolve('./src/index.template.html'), 'utf-8')
+
 function createRenderer (bundle, options) {
   // https://github.com/vuejs/vue/blob/dev/packages/vue-server-renderer/README.md#why-use-bundlerenderer
   return createBundleRenderer(bundle, Object.assign(options, {
+    template,
     // for component caching
     cache: require('lru-cache')({
       max: 1000,
@@ -29,19 +32,15 @@ function createRenderer (bundle, options) {
 let renderer
 
 if (isProd) {
-  // In production: create server renderer using server bundle and index HTML
-  // template from real fs.
+  // In production: create server renderer using built server bundle.
   // The server bundle is generated by vue-ssr-webpack-plugin.
   const bundle = require('./dist/vue-ssr-bundle.json')
-  // src/index.template.html is processed by html-webpack-plugin to inject
-  // build assets and output as dist/index.html.
-  const template = fs.readFileSync(resolve('./dist/index.html'), 'utf-8')
+  // The client manifests are optional, but it allows the renderer
+  // to automatically infer preload/prefetch links and directly add <script>
+  // tags for any async chunks used during render, avoiding waterfall requests.
+  const clientManifest = require('./dist/vue-ssr-client-manifest.json')
   renderer = createRenderer(bundle, {
-    template,
-    // The client manifests are optional, but it allows the renderer
-    // to automatically infer preload/prefetch links and directly add <script>
-    // tags for any async chunks used during render, avoiding waterfall requests.
-    clientManifest: require('./dist/vue-ssr-client-manifest.json')
+    clientManifest
   })
 } else {
   // In development: setup the dev server with watch and hot-reload,