Vue to Laravel Inertia

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### ✅ 1. **Setup Laravel with Inertia and Vue**
If not already done:

composer require laravel/breeze --dev
php artisan breeze:install vue
npm install
npm run dev
php artisan migrate

This gives you Laravel + Inertia + Vue boilerplate with basic auth scaffolding.

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### ✅ 2. **Move Vue Components**

Copy your Vue components from your standalone app into:

resources/js/Pages/

or if they are reusable components:

resources/js/Components/

Example:

# From your standalone app:
src/components/Navbar.vue
src/pages/Home.vue

# Move to:
resources/js/Components/Navbar.vue
resources/js/Pages/Home.vue

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### ✅ 3. **Update Routing to Use Inertia**

Replace Laravel Blade views with Inertia routes:

**`routes/web.php`**

use InertiaInertia;

Route::get('/', function () {
    return Inertia::render('Home'); // Matches Home.vue in Pages
});

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### ✅ 4. **Add Page Layout If Needed**

If your Vue app had layout components (like a Navbar, Sidebar, etc), wrap your pages in a layout.

**`resources/js/Layouts/AppLayout.vue`**

<template>
  <div>
    <Navbar />
    <main><slot /></main>
  </div>
</template>

<script setup>
import Navbar from '@/Components/Navbar.vue'
</script>

Then use it in your pages:

**`resources/js/Pages/Home.vue`**

<template>
  <AppLayout>
    <h1>Welcome to Inertia</h1>
  </AppLayout>
</template>

<script setup>
import AppLayout from '@/Layouts/AppLayout.vue'
</script>

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### ✅ 5. **Assets & Styles**

Move your `main.js` logic into Laravel’s entrypoint:

**`resources/js/app.js`**

If you have global styles:

– Move them to `resources/css/app.css` or import SCSS in `app.js`
– Example:

import './bootstrap';
import '../css/app.css'; // or app.scss

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### ✅ 6. **Update API Calls**

If your Vue app uses Axios, you can use Laravel routes as APIs.

– Backend: Define routes in `routes/api.php`
– Frontend: Use Axios to call them (already included in Laravel Breeze)

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### ✅ 7. **Run and Test**

php artisan serve
npm run dev

Visit `http://localhost:8000` and confirm your migrated Vue components are loading properly.

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If you share your standalone Vue structure (or `App.vue`, routing setup), I can help with a more tailored conversion. Want to share that?

const savedLang = localStorage.getItem('lang') || 'en';

const i18n = createI18n({
locale: savedLang, // Set default locale
fallbackLocale: 'en', // Fallback locale in case the current locale is not available
messages: {
en,
es,
},
});

const appName = import.meta.env.VITE_APP_NAME || 'Laravel';

createInertiaApp({
title: (title) => (title ? `${title} – ${appName}` : appName),
resolve: (name) =>
resolvePageComponent(
`./Pages/${name}.vue`,
import.meta.glob('./Pages/**/*.vue'),
),
setup({ el, App, props, plugin }) {
const app = createApp({ render: () => h(App, props) });

// Use plugins
app.use(i18n);
app.use(plugin);
app.use(ZiggyVue);
app.use(router);
app.config.globalProperties.t = (…args) => i18n.global.t(…args);

// Mount the app
app.mount(el);
},
progress: {
color: '#4B5563',
},
});
also use vue standalone router

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## ✅ How to integrate **Vue Router with Laravel + Inertia**

You already have:
– Inertia setup
– Vue Router imported (`import router from './router'`)
– i18n support
– Ziggy

Here's a quick checklist to make it clean and safe:

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### 1. ✅ Use Vue Router only for client-side sub-navigation

Avoid using Vue Router to replace Laravel routes. For example:

**Good use:**
– Tabs inside a page: `/dashboard/settings?tab=profile`
– Modals inside a page
– Step forms: `/checkout/step1`, `/checkout/step2`

**Avoid:**
– Full page routes like `/login`, `/dashboard` → should go via Laravel and Inertia.

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### 2. ✅ Setup Vue Router

Make sure your `router/index.js` looks like this:

import { createRouter, createWebHistory } from 'vue-router';
import Profile from '@/Pages/User/Profile.vue';
import Settings from '@/Pages/User/Settings.vue';

const routes = [
    {
        path: '/dashboard/profile',
        name: 'profile',
        component: Profile,
    },
    {
        path: '/dashboard/settings',
        name: 'settings',
        component: Settings,
    },
];

const router = createRouter({
    history: createWebHistory(), // must match Inertia history
    routes,
});

export default router;

Then in a page component, e.g., `Dashboard.vue`:

<template>
  <AppLayout>
    <RouterView />
  </AppLayout>
</template>

<script setup>
import AppLayout from '@/Layouts/AppLayout.vue';
</script>

You can now use “ and `router.push(…)` for sub-routes.

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### 3. ✅ Use Laravel for top-level routing (via `web.php`)

Your Laravel routes should **only define the top-level route** like this:

Route::get('/dashboard', function () {
    return Inertia::render('Dashboard');
});

In your `Dashboard.vue`, you'll now handle sub-routing via Vue Router.

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### 4. ✅ Keep Inertia in control of `document.title`

Your setup:

title: (title) => (title ? `${title} - ${appName}` : appName),

That’s good. Just don’t use Vue Router’s “ logic — let Inertia own it.

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### ✅ Summary

You're already doing great — just make sure:

– Laravel controls **top-level routes**
– Vue Router handles **client-side sub-views**
– Don't mix Inertia's page-based routing with Vue Router's full SPA routing
– Use `RouterView` inside Inertia pages if needed

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If you want help refactoring your `router/index.js` or want a hybrid example (tabs with Vue Router inside an Inertia page), just drop the structure or ask — happy to walk through it!

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<script>

</script>

@routes
@vite(['resources/js/app.js', "resources/js/Pages/{$page['component']}.vue"])
@inertiaHead

Unable to locate file in Vite manifest: resources/js/Pages/HomeView.vue

means Laravel Vite is trying to load `resources/js/Pages/HomeView.vue` **as if it were a JavaScript entry file**, which it’s not.

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## 🧠 Why This Happens

You're using:

@vite(['resources/js/app.js', "resources/js/Pages/{$page['component']}.vue"])

But `.vue` components **are dynamically imported** by Inertia/Vite using `resolvePageComponent()` in your `app.js`. You **should not include Vue files** in the `@vite()` directive directly.

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## ✅ Solution

Replace this:

@vite(['resources/js/app.js', "resources/js/Pages/{$page['component']}.vue"])

With just:

@vite(['resources/js/app.js'])

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## ✅ Why This Fix Works

Your `app.js` already uses:

resolvePageComponent(
    `./Pages/${name}.vue`,
    import.meta.glob('./Pages/**/*.vue')
)

This makes Vite **auto-register all your Vue pages** via dynamic import, so Vite will build them correctly and add them to the manifest during `npm run dev` or `build`.

Including the `.vue` file directly in `@vite()` causes Vite to look for that file in the manifest as if it were a JS entry file — and it’s not, hence the error.

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## ✅ Final Blade Template (`resources/views/app.blade.php`)

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="{{ str_replace('_', '-', app()->getLocale()) }}">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
    <title inertia>{{ config('app.name', 'Laravel') }}</title>

    <!-- Scripts -->
    @routes
    @vite(['resources/js/app.js'])
    @inertiaHead
</head>
<body class="font-sans antialiased">
    @inertia
</body>
</html>

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Let me know if you want to use a fallback for missing components or dynamically show a "Not Found" Vue page instead — happy to help with that too.

resources/js/Pages/HomeView.vue

But it **wasn’t included in the Vite manifest**, which happens when either:

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### 🚨 1. You included the `.vue` file directly in `@vite()`

**Fix this:**

**In `resources/views/app.blade.php`, replace:**

@vite(['resources/js/app.js', "resources/js/Pages/{$page['component']}.vue"])

**with just:**

@vite('resources/js/app.js')

> ✅ `resolvePageComponent()` and `import.meta.glob()` already handle Vue page loading dynamically. No need to pass the `.vue` files manually to Vite.

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### 🚨 2. File name mismatch

Ensure the page you're trying to render exists **exactly** with the same case-sensitive name.

For example:

If Laravel is trying to render:

resources/js/Pages/HomeView.vue

Then the file must **exist at that exact path** (case-sensitive!):

resources/js/Pages/HomeView.vue

Check for:
– Typo (e.g., `homeView.vue` vs `HomeView.vue`)
– Wrong folder (e.g., maybe it’s in `Views/` instead of `Pages/`)
– Filename casing if you're on a case-sensitive file system (like Linux)

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### 🔍 3. Inertia page resolution logic

In your `app.js`, you're using:

resolvePageComponent(
  `./Pages/${name}.vue`,
  import.meta.glob('./Pages/**/*.vue')
)

So, if Laravel tries to render a page with:

return Inertia::render('HomeView');

Then `HomeView.vue` must exist inside `resources/js/Pages`.

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### ✅ TL;DR Fix Recap

1. Update Blade layout:

@vite(['resources/js/app.js'])

2. Make sure:

resources/js/Pages/HomeView.vue

really exists with the correct name and location.

3. If not, update your Laravel route to use the correct component name:

return Inertia::render('CorrectFileName');

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If you want to share the output of `ls resources/js/Pages` or the route code causing this, I can help spot the exact issue.