Vue and Laravel: Are the Vue components even necessary if everything is being read of a bundled file?

Question

I am building an an app inside a Laravel project using Vue components. The blade layout reads off of the bundled app.js so I was wondering when using frameworks like Vue and React, are the files even necessary other than just being there for the bundle process? Like what I had actually removed the .vue files I have (components) -- would it still work since it's reading off the bundled source file?

Answer 1

.vue files are source files, and should therefore be in source control all the time. When it is compiled (using vue-cli for instance), a .js file will come out of it and that is what the browser needs.

So yes for production environments you can remove the .vue files since you only need the bundled and compiled code.