Not sure if you’re still searching for help on this topic, but I recently made a Medium article that has a step-by-step process on setting up a VueJS app with DigitalOcean:

https://medium.com/@Web_Bailey/deploy-a-vuejs-app-with-digitalocean-fd6e7af07e40

Hi @dankalagher

You can include a javascript in a file to run it client side - or you can install it by using npm and other way on the server side, which is the recommended way.
https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/installation.html
https://medium.com/codingthesmartway-com-blog/vue-js-2-quickstart-tutorial-2017-246195cfbdd2

You can setup a Node droplet by using one of the pre-built images called One-Click Apps, when you create a new droplet.

i followed this tutorial and i was able to finallly run my app.https://kenyaappexperts.com/blog/deploy-vue-js%E2%80%8A-with-pm2-and-nginx/