VueFront

CMS Connect App for OpenCart 2.x-3.x

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VueFront is a VueJS powered CMS agnostic SPA & PWA frontend for your old-fashioned Blog and E-commerce site.

OpenCart - Open-source eCommerce platform built with MVC pattern.

CMS Connect App - adds the connection between the OpenCart CMS and VueFront Web App via a GraphQL API.

DEMO

VueFront on OpenCart

OpenCart Versions

This repo stores the codebase for the CMS Connect App for OpenCart. Because of OpenCart's versioning, the branches are structured as follows

Repo Branch	OpenCart Versions
master	2.x-3.x
1.5x	1.5.x

OpenCart Blog

Since OpenCart does not have a built-in Blog, we use the Free Blog Module by Dreamvention for version 2.x-3.x

Installation

Install VueFront CMS Connect App

Php version required >= 5.5, <= 7.2 (this limitation will be removed in the future)

Quick Install (recommended)

1. Download the compiled Extensions from the latest releases.
2. Upload via OpenCart Admin -> Extension Installer
3. Go to Extensions -> Modules -> VueFront and click install
4. Click edit to view copy the CMS Connect URL

You will need the CMS Connect URL to complete the VueFront Web App installation

Advanced Install

The official compiled version of the CMS Connect APP includes other supporting extensions such as d_opencart_patch and d_twig_manager.

You can download the source code from the master branch directly and upload via ftp to your root folder. When activating the module, you should have the following extensions preinstalled: d_opencart_patch, d_twig_manager, d_twig (only for 2.x)

You can also install the d_blog_module to add blog features to VueFront.

Install via Shopunity

If you have shopunity module installed, you can use that for a super quick installation:

1. go to OpenCart admin -> shopunity -> marketplace tab
2. search for VueFront
3. Click install.

You can also install the d_blog_module via Shopunity as well.

Deploy VueFront Web App to hosting (static website)

via VueFront Deploy service (recommended)

1. Install the VueFront CMS Connect App from this repo.
2. Log in or register an account with VueFront.com
3. Build your first Web App
4. Activate the new Frontend Web App (only avalible for Apache servers)

For Nginx you need to add this code to your nginx.config file right after the index directive

location ~ ^((?!image|.php|admin|catalog|\/img\/.*\/|wp-json|wp-admin|wp-content|checkout|rest|static|order|themes\/|modules\/|js\/|\/vuefront\/).)*$ {
   try_files /vuefront/$uri /vuefront/$uri "/vuefront${uri}index.html" /vuefront$uri.html /vuefront/200.html;
}

via ftp manually

1. Install the VueFront CMS Connect App from this repo.
2. Log in or register an account with VueFront.com
3. Copy the CMS Connect URL
4. Via Ftp create a new folder vuefront in the root of your OpenCart site on your hosting.
5. Via command line build your VueFront Web App (read more)

yarn create vuefront-app
# When promote, provide the CMS Connect URL, which you coppied at step 3.
yarn generate

6. Copy all files from folder dist to the newly created vuefront folder
7. modify you .htaccess file by adding after RewriteBase rule the following rules:

# VueFront scripts, styles and images
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .*(_nuxt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*/vuefront/_nuxt
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) vuefront/$1
# VueFront sw.js
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .*(sw.js)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*/vuefront/sw.js
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) vuefront/$1
# VueFront favicon.ico
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .*(favicon.ico)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*/vuefront/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) vuefront/$1
# VueFront pages
# VueFront home page
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*(image|.php|admin|catalog|\/img\/.*\/|wp-json|wp-admin|wp-content|checkout|rest|static|order|themes\/|modules\/|js\/|\/vuefront\/)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*(rest_route)
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}".$document_path."vuefront/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^$ vuefront/index.html [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*(image|.php|admin|catalog|\/img\/.*\/|wp-json|wp-admin|wp-content|checkout|rest|static|order|themes\/|modules\/|js\/|\/vuefront\/)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*(rest_route)
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}".$document_path."vuefront/index.html !-f
RewriteRule ^$ vuefront/200.html [L]
# VueFront page if exists html file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*(image|.php|admin|catalog|\/img\/.*\/|wp-json|wp-admin|wp-content|checkout|rest|static|order|themes\/|modules\/|js\/|\/vuefront\/)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*(rest_route)
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}".$document_path."vuefront/$1.html -f
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) vuefront/$1.html [L,QSA]
# VueFront page if not exists html file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*(image|.php|admin|catalog|\/img\/.*\/|wp-json|wp-admin|wp-content|checkout|rest|static|order|themes\/|modules\/|js\/|\/vuefront\/)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*(rest_route)
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}".$document_path."vuefront/$1.html !-f
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) vuefront/200.html [L,QSA]

For Nginx you need to add this code to your nginx.config file right after the index rule

location ~ ^((?!image|.php|admin|catalog|\/img\/.*\/|wp-json|wp-admin|wp-content|checkout|rest|static|order|themes\/|modules\/|js\/|\/vuefront\/).)*$ {
   try_files /vuefront/$uri /vuefront/$uri "/vuefront${uri}index.html" /vuefront$uri.html /vuefront/200.html;
}

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