What is involved in publishing a web application?

Publishing a Vue 3 web application is not that much different from doing so for any other website, save for a few key differences. In this chapter, we will consider a clean installation, meaning that we will procure all the elements involved by ourselves. At its most basic, we need to consider the following:

• A domain name for our site/application
• The destination path for our application
• The hosting service or type
• The web server software
• Procuring a security certificate

The preceding items also give us a simple formula for our preparations. Let’s go one by one, explaining each necessary term and concern as we move forward.

Domains, Domain Name Servers (DNS), and DNS records

Every computer connected to a network receives a unique identificatory address to distinguish it from the others on the same network. These are called Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, and nowadays, there are two in operation...