electron-vite-vue/README.md

# electron-vite-vue

🥳 Really simple `Electron` + `Vue` + `Vite` boilerplate.

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## Features

📦 Out of the box  
🎯 Based on [vue-ts](https://github.com/vitejs/vite/tree/main/packages/create-vite/template-vue-ts) template, less invasive  
🌱 Extensible, really simple directory structure  
💪 Support using Node.js API in Electron-Renderer  
🔩 Support C/C++ native addons  
🖥 It's easy to implement multiple windows  

## Quick Start

```sh
npm create electron-vite
```

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![electron-vite-vue.gif](https://github.com/electron-vite/electron-vite-vue/blob/main/public/electron-vite-vue.gif?raw=true)

## Debug

![electron-vite-react-debug.gif](https://github.com/electron-vite/electron-vite-react/blob/main/public/electron-vite-react-debug.gif?raw=true)

## Directory

```diff
+ ├─┬ electron
+ │ ├─┬ main
+ │ │ └── index.ts    entry of Electron-main
+ │ └─┬ preload
+ │   └── splash.ts    entry of Electron-preload
  ├─┬ src
  │ └── main.ts       entry of Electron-renderer
  ├── index.html
  ├── package.json
  └── vite.config.ts
```

## 🚨 `dependencies` vs `devDependencies`

**Put Node.js packages in `dependencies`**

🚨 e.g.

- `electron-store`
- `sqlite3`
- `serilaport`
- `mongodb`
- ...others Node.js packages

**Put Web packages in `devDependencies`**

🚨 e.g.

- `vue`
- `vue-router`
- `vuex`
- `pinia`
- `element-plus`
- `ant-design-vue`
- `axios`
- ...others Web packages

**TODO: ESM packages**

- `node-fetch`
- `execa`
- ...others ESM packages

See more 👉 [dependencies vs devDependencies](https://github.com/electron-vite/vite-plugin-electron-renderer#dependencies-vs-devdependencies)