vue3-on-windows

Vite + Vue3 + Router + TailwindCSS for Windows 7

• Your Project Path shall be without space

Using Create-Vite-App (Old Way)

This is not recommended.

Step 1 - Create Vite Vue3 Project using Create-Vite-App (Vite1)

Ref: https://segmentfault.com/a/1190000038999784

npm install -g create-vite-app
create-vite-app vue3-demo
cd vue3-demo
npm install

• Note: Don't use offical npm init vite as it has error for Windows 7

Step 2 - Install Vue-Router

npm info vue-router versions
npm install vue-router@4.0.11

Step 3 - Install TailwindCSS

Ref: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/guides/vue-3-vite

npm install -D tailwindcss@latest postcss@latest autoprefixer@latest
npx tailwindcss init -p

Step 4 - Files Editing

./src/main.js

import { createApp } from 'vue'
import App from './App.vue'
import router from './router'
import './index.css'

createApp(App).use(router).mount('#app')

./src/router/index.js

import { createRouter, createWebHistory } from 'vue-router'
import Home from '../views/Home.vue'
import Contact from '../views/Contact.vue'

const routes = [
  {
    path: '/',
    name: 'Home',
    component: Home
  },
  {
    path: '/contact',
    name: 'Contact',
    component: Contact
  }
]

const router = createRouter({
  history: createWebHistory(process.env.BASE_URL),
  routes
})

export default router

./src/index.css

/* ./src/index.css */
@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

#app {
  font-family: Avenir, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
  -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}

./tailwind.config.js

module.exports = {
  purge: ['./index.html', './src/**/*.{vue,js,ts,jsx,tsx}'],
  darkMode: false, // or 'media' or 'class'
  theme: {
    extend: {},
  },
  variants: {
    extend: {},
  },
  plugins: [],
}

Vite2 (New Way)

This is recommended. Except scaffolding and vite.config.js, other shall be the same as Create-Vite-App (Vite1)

Vite2's Scaffolding

npm init vite@latest 
cd vue3-demo
npm install esbuild@0.12.24
npm install

(esubild@0.12.26 is not stable, so force install 0.12.24 on your project folder before npm install) (npm install will automatically download the neccessary packages)

Configurations

How to expose 'host' for external device display? #3396

vitejs/vite#3396

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [vue()],
  server: {
    host: true
  }
})

process is not defined

import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
// ... 
export default defineConfig({
    // ... 
    define: {
        'process.env': {}
    }
})

isCustomElement

import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
import vue from '@vitejs/plugin-vue'

// https://vitejs.dev/config/
export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [vue({
    template: {
      compilerOptions: {
        isCustomElement: tag => tag.startsWith('ion-')
      }
    }
  })],
  server: {
    host: true
  },
  port: 3000,
  define: { 
      'process.env': {}
  }
})

Vue-i18n

npm install vue-i18n@next

8.x is not for Vue3 9.x is compatible with vue 3

main.js

import { createI18n, useI18n } from 'vue-i18n'

vue-router

npm install vue-router@4

VS Code Extensions

• Tailwind CSS IntelliSense
• Vetur
• PostCSS Language Support