Meet the Vue.js blog engine that integrates with your website using a straightforward API. Smooth, simple, and tasty content integration — that’s Butter.
So easy to use. So easy to customize. You’re going to love the blog you build with ButterCMS.
Handy integration with Vue.js
Our Vue.js blog engine has a simple content API and drop-in SDKs that make the magic happen in minutes, not hours.
A truly zero-maintenance solution
With ButterCMS, you’ll never worry about security upgrades, hosting, or performance again.
You've got better things to do than build another blog
Drop our Vue.js blog engine into your app, and get back to more interesting problems.
ButterCMS is an API-based blog engine that integrates seamlessly with new and existing Vue.js apps. It's great for SEO, and provides a clean and modern user interface that your marketing team will love. You can deploy ButterCMS in minutes using our Vue.js API client.
That leaves plenty of time for you and your marketing team to do what you do best: create killer apps with killer content.
After shopping the market, it was clear that ButterCMS was the perfect choice. It allows our developers to build powerful components and makes it easy for our marketing team to drive a better customer experience.
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Deploy our Vue Starter in 30 seconds!
Or follow the below commands to clone a copy of the repo from github, install dependencies, set your free Butter token, and
run your local server on localhost:3000/.
$ git clone https://github.com/ButterCMS/vuejs-starter-buttercms
$ cd vuejs-starter-buttercms
$ npm install
$ echo 'VITE_APP_BUTTER_CMS_API_KEY=your_free_api_token_here' >> .env
$ npm run start
ButterCMS is the best Vue.js blog engine for a simple reason: Vue.js developers can build solutions that marketing people love. Our API allows your content gurus to quickly spin up high-converting blog templates, sidebars, related content features, and more, all using simple drag-and-drop functionality.
Our mission was to make it easy to integrate Butter with your existing Vue.js app in minutes. It’s so simple! To demonstrate, here’s a mini tutorial to give you a feel for the process of adding Butter to your Vue.js app.
See how easily you can integrate the ButterCMS Pages API with your Vue.js app.
Seamless Vue.js components
Empower your marketing team to create a customized blog engine that aligns perfectly with your Vue.js components.
Components are the essential building blocks of any Vue.js app, and ButterCMS handles them with ease.
Our drag and drop interface makes it simple to structure your content to match existing Vue.js components and to create new reusable components whenever you need them.
The best Vue.js blog engine for SEO
ButterCMS gives you absolute control over on-page SEO ranking factors. Key SEO variables are built into our default post template, giving your marketing team direct access to configure all of these settings, and more.
How to integrate ButterCMS into your Vue.js application
Integrating the Butter blog engine into your Vue.js app is dead simple. Here's a mini tutorial to get a feel for setting up your blog home and blog post pages.
To display posts we create a simple/blogroute in our app and fetch blog posts from the Butter API, as well as a/blog/:slugroute to handle individual posts. See ourAPI referencefor additional options such as filtering by category or author. The response also includes some metadata we'll use for pagination.
See our API reference for additional options such as filtering by category or author. The response also includes some metadata we'll use for pagination.
router/index.js:
import Vue from 'vue' import Router from 'vue-router' import BlogHome from '@/components/BlogHome' import BlogPost from '@/components/BlogPost'
<template> <div id="blog-home"> <h1>{{ page_title }}</h1> <!-- Create v-for and apply a key for Vue. Example is using a combination of the slug and index --> <div v-for="(post,index) in posts" :key="post.slug + '_' + index"> <router-link :to="'/blog/' + post.slug"> <article class="media"> <figure> <!-- Bind results using a ':' --> <!-- Use a v-if/else if their is a featured_image --> <img v-if="post.featured_image" :src="post.featured_image" alt=""> <img v-else src="http://via.placeholder.com/250x250" alt=""> </figure> <h2>{{ post.title }}</h2> <p>{{ post.summary }}</p> </article> </router-link> </div> </div> </template>
Now create components/BlogPost.vue which will be your Blog Post page to list a single post.