Building empty webpack project doesn't work

[ajrothwell]

I'm just getting started with vue-cli and wanted to try building an empty copy of the webpack template for deployment. This is what I did:

vue init webpack gazpachoapp
cd gazpachoapp
npm install
vue build --prod src/main.js

That last command gives an error:

ERROR in ./src/router/index.js
Module not found: Error: Can't resolve '@/components/Hello' in '/home/ubuntu/workspace/gazpachoapp/src/router'
 @ ./src/router/index.js 3:0-39
 @ ./src/main.js
 @ multi src/main.js

The if I change that line in src/router/index.js to:

import Hello from '../components/Hello'

it works, but when I build and start serving the dist folder it looks totally blank in the browser. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!

[posva]

the vue build command allows you to test and bundle libs easily, but the webpack template doesn't need it. Just use the npm run build command inside of it. You should read the template's readme too