vite-vanilla-ts-lib-starter

The starter is built on top of Vite 5.x and prepared for writing libraries in TypeScript. It generates a package with support for ESM modules and IIFE.

Features

• ESM modules
• IIFE bundle for direct browser support without bundler
• Typings bundle
• ESLint - scripts linter
• Stylelint - styles linter
• Prettier - formatter
• Vitest - test framework
• Husky + lint-staged - pre-commit git hook set up for formatting

GitHub Template

This is a template repo. Click the green Use this template button to get started.

Clone to local

If you prefer to do it manually with the cleaner git history

git clone https://github.com/kbysiec/vite-vanilla-ts-lib-starter.git
cd vite-vanilla-ts-lib-starter
npm i

Checklist

When you use this template, update the following:

• Remove .git directory and run git init to clean up the history
• Change the name in package.json - it will be the name of the IIFE bundle global variable and bundle files name (.cjs, .mjs, .iife.js, d.ts)
• Change the author name in LICENSE
• Clean up the README and CHANGELOG files

And, enjoy :)

Usage

The starter contains the following scripts:

• dev - starts dev server
• build - generates the following bundles: ESM (.js) and IIFE (.iife.js). The name of bundle is automatically taken from package.json name property
• test - starts vitest and runs all tests
• test:coverage - starts vitest and run all tests with code coverage report
• lint:scripts - lint .ts files with eslint
• lint:styles - lint .css and .scss files with stylelint
• format:scripts - format .ts, .html and .json files with prettier
• format:styles - format .cs and .scss files with stylelint
• format - format all with prettier and stylelint
• prepare - script for setting up husky pre-commit hook
• uninstall-husky - script for removing husky from repository

Acknowledgment

If you found it useful somehow, I would be grateful if you could leave a star in the project's GitHub repository.

Thank you.