Overview
The Vite React Boilerplate is a comprehensive template for building web applications using Vite and React. It is built with type safety, scalability, and developer experience in mind. The template includes various packages and tools to help developers easily kick off their next Vite + React project.
Features
- pnpm: A strict and efficient alternative to npm with up to 3x faster performance.
- TypeScript: A typed superset of JavaScript designed with large-scale applications in mind.
- ESLint: Static code analysis tool to help find problems within a codebase.
- Prettier: An opinionated code formatter.
- Vite: Feature-rich and highly optimized frontend tooling with TypeScript support out of the box.
- React: A modern front-end JavaScript library for building user interfaces based on components.
- Tailwind CSS: A utility-first CSS framework packed with classes to build any web design imaginable.
- Storybook: A frontend workshop for building UI components and pages in isolation.
- TanStack Router: Fully typesafe, modern, and scalable routing for React applications.
- TanStack Query: Declarative, always-up-to-date auto-managed queries and mutations.
- TanStack Table: Headless UI for building powerful tables and datagrids.
- Zustand: An unopinionated, small, fast, and scalable bearbones state-management solution.
- React Hook Form: Performant, flexible, and extensible forms with easy-to-use validation.
- Zod: TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference.
- React Testing Library: A lightweight, best practice-first solution for testing React components.
- Vitest: A blazing-fast unit test framework powered by Vite.
- Playwright: Enables reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps.
- Nivo: A rich set of data visualization components, built on top of D3 and React.
- Faker: Generate massive amounts of fake (but realistic) data for testing and development.
- Dayjs: A minimalist JavaScript library for manipulating and displaying dates and times.
- Husky + Commitizen + Commitlint: Git hooks and commit linting to ensure use of descriptive and practical commit messages.
- ts-reset: Improvements for TypeScript’s built-in typings for use in applications.
- Docker: Containerization tool for deploying your Vite React Boilerplate app.
Installation
To install the Vite React Boilerplate, follow these steps:
Clone the repository.
git clone [repository-url]
Change into the new directory.
Remove the .git folder and any additional files, folders, or dependencies you may not need.
Install dependencies.
Run the setup script to initialize the git repository and husky, and install playwright.
Congratulations! You’re ready to start working on your new project.
Summary
The Vite React Boilerplate is a feature-rich template for building web applications using Vite and React. It includes various packages and tools to enhance developer productivity and ensure code quality and scalability. By following the installation guide, developers can quickly set up their project and start working on their next Vite + React web app.