# Introduction

VERSION NOTE

This is the documentation for Vue Loader v15 and above. If you are upgrading from v14 or an earlier version, check out the Migration Guide. If you are using an older version, the old docs are here.

# What is Vue Loader?

vue-loader is a loader for webpack that allows you to author Vue components in a format called Single-File Components (SFCs):

<template>
  <div class="example">{{ msg }}</div>
</template>

<script>
export default {
  data () {
    return {
      msg: 'Hello world!'
    }
  }
}
</script>

<style>
.example {
  color: red;
}
</style>

There are many cool features provided by vue-loader:

Allows using other webpack loaders for each part of a Vue component, for example Sass for <style> and Pug for <template>;
Allows custom blocks in a .vue file that can have custom loader chains applied to them;
Treat static assets referenced in <style> and <template> as module dependencies and handle them with webpack loaders;
Simulate scoped CSS for each component;
State-preserving hot-reloading during development.

In a nutshell, the combination of webpack and vue-loader gives you a modern, flexible and extremely powerful front-end workflow for authoring Vue.js applications.