vue-cli VS vite

Recently, a ticket was added to our sprint with the goal of reducing packages with critical and high vulnerabilities in a legacy project. The task involved migrating a Vue 2 project using Vue CLI as the build tool to Vite.

Ecosystem: Vue's ecosystem is smaller than React's but rapidly growing. The Vue CLI provides a robust tool for project scaffolding and build configuration.

Immerse yourself in the official Vue CLI documentation for a deeper understanding.

Security would be a useful benefit/section to add to this post:

A.) If maintainers of your dependencies edited an existing version.

B.) If your dependencies did not pin their dependencies.

For instance, if you installed vue-cli in May of last year from NPM with --prefer-offline (basically the same as checking in your node_modules), you were fine. But because vue-cli doesn't pin its dependencies ("node-ipc"), installing fresh/online would create WITH-LOVE-FROM-AMERICA.txt on your desktop [1], which was at the very least a scare, but for some, very problematic.

[1] https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli/issues/7054

Vue CLI documentation: https://cli.vuejs.org/

An interesting fact is that this dependency was used in vue-cli.

Vue CLI 3

Open issue for half a year https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli/issues/7234

Vue CLI (command-line interface), which is used to install and create the main Vue framework libraries and third-party plugins.

Is there a reason you've used the old Vue CLI though, with webpack and babel?Imho you're missing a lot not using Vite... npm init vue@latest (create-vue) is the recommended way to scaffold a new Vue app, Vue CLI is in Maintenance Mode

If you’re a beginner looking forward to diving into learning React. But you don’t know how to create the first React App. If you are starting to learn React, then you would be wondering how to create your first React app. Then, you are at the right place. In this blog, you will learn how to create React app and run your React app. There are many different ways of creating a React App. But we will be discussing the official suggested method to create first React app (i.e., Using Vite). Here’s the complete step-by-step guidance and everything you need to create your first React app: First Step: Run this command: (You’re supposed to have Node.js version 20.19+. If you haven’t installed it, first install it from Node.js official website)

The npm create @mapbox/web-app package is a CLI tool that uses Vite templates to quickly build a project into the following frameworks:

how vite handles dependency resolution;

Vite a fast, modern build tool that offers instant hot module replacement (HMR), optimized builds, and better DX (Developer Experience). It aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects.

Vite Docs

Vite is one of the most popular modern bundlers.

All of the templates Vite provides - create-vite.

Frontend: Vite + React + TypeScript