create-vue-library

CLI for creating reusable, modern Vue libraries using Rollup and create-vue-app.

Status

This project is an active WIP. It is a fork of create-vue-library.

Features

• Easy-to-use CLI
• Handles all modern JS features
• Bundles cjs and es module formats
• Rollup for bundling
• Babel for transpiling
• Jest for testing
• Supports complicated peer-dependencies
• Optional support for TypeScript
• Sourcemap creation
• Hundreds of public modules created
• Thorough documentation :heart_eyes:

Install

This package requires node >= 4, but we recommend node >= 8.

npm install -g create-vue-library

Creating a New Module

create-vue-library

Answer some basic prompts about your module, and then the CLI will perform the following steps:

• copy over the template
• install dependencies via yarn or npm
• link packages together for local development
• initialize local git repo

At this point, your new module should resemble this screenshot and is all setup for local development.

Development

Local development is broken into two parts (ideally using two tabs).

First, run rollup to watch your src/ module and automatically recompile it into dist/ whenever you make changes.

npm start # runs rollup with watch flag

The second part will be running the example/ create-vue-app that's linked to the local version of your module.

# (in another tab)
cd example
npm start # runs create-vue-app dev server

Now, anytime you make a change to your library in src/ or to the example app's example/src, create-vue-app will live-reload your local dev server so you can iterate on your component in real-time.

Publishing to NPM

npm publish

This builds cjs and es versions of your module to dist/ and then publishes your module to npm.

Make sure that any npm modules you want as peer dependencies are properly marked as peerDependencies in package.json. The rollup config will automatically recognize them as peers and not try to bundle them in your module.

Deploying to Github Pages

npm run deploy

This creates a production build of the example create-vue-app that showcases your library and then runs gh-pages to deploy the resulting bundle.

License

MIT © Travis Fischer