vite-plugin-components

`vite-plugin-components`

On demand components auto importing for Vite

Usage

ℹ️ Vite 2 is supported from v0.6.x, Vite 1's support is discontinued.

Install

npm i vite-plugin-components -D # yarn add vite-plugin-components -D

Add it to vite.config.js

// vite.config.js
import Vue from '@vitejs/plugin-vue'
import ViteComponents from 'vite-plugin-components'

export default {
  plugins: [
    Vue(),
    ViteComponents()
  ],
};

That's all.

Use components in templates as you would usually do, it will import components on demand and there is no import and component registration required anymore! If you register the parent component asynchronously (or lazy route), the auto-imported components will be code-split along with their parent.

Basically, it will automatically turn this

<template>
  <div>
    <HelloWorld msg="Hello Vue 3.0 + Vite" />
  </div>
</template>

<script>
export default {
  name: 'App'
}
</script>

into this

<template>
  <div>
    <HelloWorld msg="Hello Vue 3.0 + Vite" />
  </div>
</template>

<script>
import HelloWorld from './src/components/HelloWorld.vue'

export default {
  name: 'App',
  components: {
    HelloWorld
  }
}
</script>

TypeScript

To have TypeScript support for auto-imported components, there is a PR to Vue 3 extending the interface of global components. Currently, Volar has supported this usage already, if you are using Volar, you can change the config as following to get the support.

// vite.config.js
import ViteComponents from 'vite-plugin-components'

export default {
  plugins: [
    /* ... */
    ViteComponents({
      globalComponentsDeclaration: true,
    }),
  ],
}

Once the setup is done, a components.d.ts will be generated and updates automatically with the type definitions. Feel free to commit it into git or not as you want.

Make sure you also add components.d.ts to your tsconfig.json under includes.

Vue 2 Support

It just works.

// vite.config.js
import { createVuePlugin } from 'vite-plugin-vue2'
import ViteComponents from 'vite-plugin-components'

export default {
  plugins: [
    createVuePlugin(),
    ViteComponents(),
  ],
}

Importing from UI Libraries

We have several built-in resolvers for popular UI libraries like Vuetify, Ant Design Vue, and Element Plus, where you can enable them by:

Supported Resolvers:

// vite.config.js
import ViteComponents, {
  AntDesignVueResolver,
  ElementPlusResolver,
  VantResolver,
} from 'vite-plugin-components'

export default {
  plugins: [
    /* ... */
    ViteComponents({
      customComponentResolvers: [
        AntDesignVueResolver(),
        ElementPlusResolver(),
        VantResolver(),
      ]
    }),
  ],
}

You can also write your own resolver easily:

// vite.config.js
import ViteComponents from 'vite-plugin-components'

export default {
  plugins: [
    /* ... */
    ViteComponents({
      customComponentResolvers: [
        // example of importing Vant
        (name) => {
          // where `name` is always CapitalCase
          if (name.startsWith('Van'))
            return { importName: name.slice(3), path: 'vant' }
        }
      ]
    }),
  ],
}

If you made other UI libraries configured, please feel free to contribute so it can help others using them out-of-box. Thanks!

Configuration

The following show the default values of the configuration

ViteComponents({
  // relative paths to the directory to search for components.
  dirs: ['src/components'],

  // valid file extensions for components.
  extensions: ['vue'],
  // search for subdirectories
  deep: true,

  // generate `components.d.ts` global declrations, 
  // also accepts a path for custom filename
  globalComponentsDeclaration: false,

  // Allow subdirectories as namespace prefix for components.
  directoryAsNamespace: false,
  // Subdirectory paths for ignoring namespace prefixes
  // works when `directoryAsNamespace: true`
  globalNamespaces: [],
})

vite-plugin-components