Feathersjs frontend and backend in a single project

Question

I'm looking to build a small customer management portal for myself. I've recently started working with node and vuejs a lot (coming from an html/css/javascript background). I've really enjoyed CLI development though and am looking to build a customer management portal (nothing fancy) that has a MySQL backend. After studying frameworks and ideas I found feathersjs which I REALLY like. After a few hours I was able to have a REST api that returns data from my MySQL database and uses authentication. I can get MySQL data in a JSON datasource and even do inserts, updates, deletes. I generated the services and models using the feathersjs CLI generator.

My question is, do I really need to make two separate projects (one for backend and one for a public frontend) and run them each on a node server? Or could I do this in as single project? I'm still learning and reading up on feathersjs but I'm not seeing a way to make this possible. I do see a public folder in my feathersjs project that was generated but I don't know how to utilize it for node (I wanted my frontend written in Vue). I can see how static HTMLfiles would work in this public folder.