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Deploy a Vue frontend WITH a Flask backend.

• You want to run more complex server-side business logics.
• You want to connect to a database.
• The package you are relying on are Python-based.
• You need an authentication backend.

This guide is specifically for when you want to run both backend and frontend as 1 single service. This is useful for services like Heroku's Dyno or DigitalOcean's App Platform where it would cost twice as much to have both a front-end and a back-end service.

• We have Nuxt, which can run server-side logic and authentication.
• You can also run ExpressJS and do the MEVN stack instead.

Run the following line to compile and build the frontend application

$ make build

This will create a folder dist on the root directory.

We can then deploy the application as a Python Flask application, ultimately calling the service TODO: