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 Creating a Single-page Application with Vue.js + vue-router is dead simple. With Vue.js, we are already composing our application with components. When adding vue-router to the mix, all we need to do is map our components to the routes and let vue-router know where to render them. Here's a basic example:
 
+> All examples will be using the standalone version of vue to make template parsing possible. See more details [here](http://vuejs.org/guide/installation.html#Standalone-vs-Runtime-only-Build)
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 ### HTML
 
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