No worries, I spent a lot of time on it to understand.
Some of the code is in the back end, so you might be missing parts of it in my source code. I made the back end source code public if you want to check it out. I might close it later tough. It is a little better structured so you should understand better. Might interest you as well @jedau https://github.com/Jrejoire/Inkito-ipfs/
Basically I followed the hive documentation, here: https://developers.hive.io/tutorials/#tutorials-javascript
And the hivesigner api for login, vote, follow etc... https://github.com/ledgerconnect/hivesigner.js
When you are say making a connection, are you at the initial config or trying to get information from Hive? Is it the Vue structure your troubled with? Maybe I can show a smaller example to help you out...
I'll have a scrub through if it's up long enough next time I get a work period (with the way I structured stuff coding only gets a work period once a week which is the other reason why it's taking so long to get anywhere ^_^;).
I was following the hive documentation but I can't even get posts to list. Initially tried rewriting the example to fit how I wanted the vue structure (because I absolutely loathe code spitting out more code like that) but in the end couldn't even get a straight up copy/paste to work ^_^; I would have to go back and look again for the exact error message, my current interpretation is that I'm missing something because something or other is not being done with the client object.
Nice! Thanks for sharing. Pinata looks like a cool service as well.