# Building up your app

This section directly refers to vue-cli build services

In your terminal simple, under the app folder, run:

npm run build

# Previewing Locally

The dist directory is meant to be served by an HTTP server, so it will not work if you open dist/index.html directly over file:// protocol. The easiest way to preview your production build locally is using a Node.js static file server, for example serve:

npm install -g serve

serve dist