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JavaScript API Vite's JavaScript APIs are fully typed, and it's recommended to use TypeScript or enable JS type checking in VS Code to leverage the intellisense and validation.
createServer
Type Signature:
tsasync function createServer(inlineConfig?: InlineConfig): Promise<ViteDevServer>
Example Usage:
tsimport { } from 'node:url'
import { } from 'vite'
const = (new ('.', import.meta.))
const = await ({
// any valid user config options, plus `mode` and `configFile`
: false,
: ,
: {
: 1337,
},
})
await .()
.()
.({ : true })
NOTE
When using createServer
and build
in the same Node.js process, both functions rely on process.env.NODE_ENV
to work properly, which also depends on the mode
config option. To prevent conflicting behavior, set process.env.NODE_ENV
or the mode
of the two APIs to development
. Otherwise, you can spawn a child process to run the APIs separately.
NOTE
When using middleware mode combined with proxy config for WebSocket, the parent http server should be provided in middlewareMode
to bind the proxy correctly.
import from 'http'
import { } from 'vite'
const = .() // or express, koa, etc.
const = await ({
: {
// Enable middleware mode
: {
// Provide the parent http server for proxy WebSocket
: ,
},
: {
'/ws': {
: 'ws://localhost:3000',
// Proxying WebSocket
: true,
},
},
},
})
.use(.)
InlineConfig
The InlineConfig
interface extends UserConfig
with additional properties:
configFile
: specify config file to use. If not set, Vite will try to automatically resolve one from project root. Set to false
to disable auto resolving.ResolvedConfig
The ResolvedConfig
interface has all the same properties of a UserConfig
, except most properties are resolved and non-undefined. It also contains utilities like:
config.assetsInclude
: A function to check if an id
is considered an asset.config.logger
: Vite's internal logger object.ViteDevServer
ts
interface ViteDevServer {
/**
* The resolved Vite config object.
*/
config: ResolvedConfig
/**
* A connect app instance
* - Can be used to attach custom middlewares to the dev server.
* - Can also be used as the handler function of a custom http server
* or as a middleware in any connect-style Node.js frameworks.
*
* https://github.com/senchalabs/connect#use-middleware
*/
middlewares: Connect.Server
/**
* Native Node http server instance.
* Will be null in middleware mode.
*/
httpServer: http.Server | null
/**
* Chokidar watcher instance. If `config.server.watch` is set to `null`,
* it will not watch any files and calling `add` or `unwatch` will have no effect.
* https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/tree/3.6.0#api
*/
watcher: FSWatcher
/**
* Web socket server with `send(payload)` method.
*/
ws: WebSocketServer
/**
* Rollup plugin container that can run plugin hooks on a given file.
*/
pluginContainer: PluginContainer
/**
* Module graph that tracks the import relationships, url to file mapping
* and hmr state.
*/
moduleGraph: ModuleGraph
/**
* The resolved urls Vite prints on the CLI (URL-encoded). Returns `null`
* in middleware mode or if the server is not listening on any port.
*/
resolvedUrls: ResolvedServerUrls | null
/**
* Programmatically resolve, load and transform a URL and get the result
* without going through the http request pipeline.
*/
transformRequest(
url: string,
options?: TransformOptions,
): Promise<TransformResult | null>
/**
* Apply Vite built-in HTML transforms and any plugin HTML transforms.
*/
transformIndexHtml(
url: string,
html: string,
originalUrl?: string,
): Promise<string>
/**
* Load a given URL as an instantiated module for SSR.
*/
ssrLoadModule(
url: string,
options?: { fixStacktrace?: boolean },
): Promise<Record<string, any>>
/**
* Fix ssr error stacktrace.
*/
ssrFixStacktrace(e: Error): void
/**
* Triggers HMR for a module in the module graph. You can use the `server.moduleGraph`
* API to retrieve the module to be reloaded. If `hmr` is false, this is a no-op.
*/
reloadModule(module: ModuleNode): Promise<void>
/**
* Start the server.
*/
listen(port?: number, isRestart?: boolean): Promise<ViteDevServer>
/**
* Restart the server.
*
* @param forceOptimize - force the optimizer to re-bundle, same as --force cli flag
*/
restart(forceOptimize?: boolean): Promise<void>
/**
* Stop the server.
*/
close(): Promise<void>
/**
* Bind CLI shortcuts
*/
bindCLIShortcuts(options?: BindCLIShortcutsOptions<ViteDevServer>): void
/**
* Calling `await server.waitForRequestsIdle(id)` will wait until all static imports
* are processed. If called from a load or transform plugin hook, the id needs to be
* passed as a parameter to avoid deadlocks. Calling this function after the first
* static imports section of the module graph has been processed will resolve immediately.
* @experimental
*/
waitForRequestsIdle: (ignoredId?: string) => Promise<void>
}
INFO
waitForRequestsIdle
is meant to be used as a escape hatch to improve DX for features that can't be implemented following the on-demand nature of the Vite dev server. It can be used during startup by tools like Tailwind to delay generating the app CSS classes until the app code has been seen, avoiding flashes of style changes. When this function is used in a load or transform hook, and the default HTTP1 server is used, one of the six http channels will be blocked until the server processes all static imports. Vite's dependency optimizer currently uses this function to avoid full-page reloads on missing dependencies by delaying loading of pre-bundled dependencies until all imported dependencies have been collected from static imported sources. Vite may switch to a different strategy in a future major release, setting optimizeDeps.crawlUntilStaticImports: false
by default to avoid the performance hit in large applications during cold start.
build
Type Signature:
tsasync function build(
inlineConfig?: InlineConfig,
): Promise<RollupOutput | RollupOutput[]>
Example Usage:
vite.config.js
tsimport from 'node:path'
import { } from 'node:url'
import { } from 'vite'
const = (new ('.', import.meta.))
await ({
: .(, './project'),
: '/foo/',
: {
: {
// ...
},
},
})
preview
Type Signature:
tsasync function preview(inlineConfig?: InlineConfig): Promise<PreviewServer>
Example Usage:
tsimport { } from 'vite'
const = await ({
// any valid user config options, plus `mode` and `configFile`
: {
: 8080,
: true,
},
})
.()
.({ : true })
PreviewServer
ts
interface PreviewServer {
/**
* The resolved vite config object
*/
config: ResolvedConfig
/**
* A connect app instance.
* - Can be used to attach custom middlewares to the preview server.
* - Can also be used as the handler function of a custom http server
* or as a middleware in any connect-style Node.js frameworks
*
* https://github.com/senchalabs/connect#use-middleware
*/
middlewares: Connect.Server
/**
* native Node http server instance
*/
httpServer: http.Server
/**
* The resolved urls Vite prints on the CLI (URL-encoded). Returns `null`
* if the server is not listening on any port.
*/
resolvedUrls: ResolvedServerUrls | null
/**
* Print server urls
*/
printUrls(): void
/**
* Bind CLI shortcuts
*/
bindCLIShortcuts(options?: BindCLIShortcutsOptions<PreviewServer>): void
}
resolveConfig
Type Signature:
tsasync function resolveConfig(
inlineConfig: InlineConfig,
command: 'build' | 'serve',
defaultMode = 'development',
defaultNodeEnv = 'development',
isPreview = false,
): Promise<ResolvedConfig>
The command
value is serve
in dev and preview, and build
in build.
mergeConfig
Type Signature:
tsfunction mergeConfig(
defaults: Record<string, any>,
overrides: Record<string, any>,
isRoot = true,
): Record<string, any>
Deeply merge two Vite configs. isRoot
represents the level within the Vite config which is being merged. For example, set false
if you're merging two build
options.
NOTE
mergeConfig
accepts only config in object form. If you have a config in callback form, you should call it before passing into mergeConfig
.
You can use the defineConfig
helper to merge a config in callback form with another config:
export default (() =>
((), ),
)
searchForWorkspaceRoot
Type Signature:
tsfunction searchForWorkspaceRoot(
current: string,
root = searchForPackageRoot(current),
): string
Related: server.fs.allow
Search for the root of the potential workspace if it meets the following conditions, otherwise it would fallback to root
:
workspaces
field in package.json
lerna.json
pnpm-workspace.yaml
loadEnv
Type Signature:
tsfunction loadEnv(
mode: string,
envDir: string,
prefixes: string | string[] = 'VITE_',
): Record<string, string>
Related: .env
Files
Load .env
files within the envDir
. By default, only env variables prefixed with VITE_
are loaded, unless prefixes
is changed.
normalizePath
Type Signature:
tsfunction normalizePath(id: string): string
Related: Path Normalization
Normalizes a path to interoperate between Vite plugins.
transformWithEsbuild
Type Signature:
tsasync function transformWithEsbuild(
code: string,
filename: string,
options?: EsbuildTransformOptions,
inMap?: object,
): Promise<ESBuildTransformResult>
Transform JavaScript or TypeScript with esbuild. Useful for plugins that prefer matching Vite's internal esbuild transform.
loadConfigFromFile
Type Signature:
tsasync function loadConfigFromFile(
configEnv: ConfigEnv,
configFile?: string,
configRoot: string = process.cwd(),
logLevel?: LogLevel,
customLogger?: Logger,
): Promise<{
path: string
config: UserConfig
dependencies: string[]
} | null>
Load a Vite config file manually with esbuild.
preprocessCSS
Type Signature:
tsasync function preprocessCSS(
code: string,
filename: string,
config: ResolvedConfig,
): Promise<PreprocessCSSResult>
interface PreprocessCSSResult {
code: string
map?: SourceMapInput
modules?: Record<string, string>
deps?: Set<string>
}
Pre-processes .css
, .scss
, .sass
, .less
, .styl
and .stylus
files to plain CSS so it can be used in browsers or parsed by other tools. Similar to the built-in CSS pre-processing support, the corresponding pre-processor must be installed if used.
The pre-processor used is inferred from the filename
extension. If the filename
ends with .module.{ext}
, it is inferred as a CSS module and the returned result will include a modules
object mapping the original class names to the transformed ones.
Note that pre-processing will not resolve URLs in url()
or image-set()
.
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