Vue Designer PrimeVue - Quick start template

This is a starter template that pre-includes the Pinegrow Vite Plugin, PrimeVue, Pinegrow PrimeVue Plugin and other goodies for Vue Designer.

Demo - https://pg-vue-primevue.netlify.app/

Vue Designer

A desktop visual editor for Vue apps supporting Mac, Windows, and Linux by Pinegrow. Take it for a free trial at Vue Designer!

It lets you visually design 🎨 your Vue single file components and boosts your productivity and creativity while building your component-based Vue apps.

It smartly integrates with your ⚡️ Vite based CLI and provides an amazing developer experience with its powerful visual controls and features.

Clean code 😃, No lock-in - You are in control of your projects and development workflow ❤️

Try it now!

1. Clone to local

Create a repo from this template on GitHub.

(or)

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

npx giget@latest gh:pinegrow/pg-vue-primevue my-vue-primevue-app #project-name
cd my-vue-primevue-app
npm install #or use pnpm

(or)

If you prefer a minimal template (a single empty home page) instead,

npx giget@latest gh:pinegrow/pg-vue-primevue#minimal my-vue-primevue-app #project-name
cd my-vue-primevue-app
npm install #or use pnpm

2. Open in Vue Designer

Open your project in Vue Designer and follow the instructions displayed in the Config Panel (that should pop out automatically). Config Panel ⚙️ displays the key packages and the various links to their individual ecosystems and communities.

Usage

Start your development server

npm run dev

Build

npm run build

Analyze

Uncomment the rollup-plugin-visualizer usage in your config file and execute the build command. This command will generate stats.html. Open stats.html in your browser to analyze bundle sizes.

npm run build # open stats.html to analyze bundle sizes

Preview

npm run now # build & preview

Lighthouse

npm run unlighthouse # Uses npx unlighthouse from https://unlighthouse.dev/ to run lighthouse on entire site (all pages)

Deploy to Netlify

You can deploy this repo as a site on your own to explore and experiment with, by clicking this button.

Check out the deployment documentation for more information.

Pre-packed

Meta Framework (Vue-based)

• Vite - Vite-powered Vue SPA
  • 👉 Follow the amazing Vue docs
  • 🚦 Vue-Router for client-side routing. Expressive, configurable, convenient enables snappy navigation.

UI Frameworks

• PrimeVue - PrimeVue is a complete UI suite for Vue.js consisting of a rich set of UI components, icons, blocks, and application templates.

Icons

• UnoCSS Preset Icons - use over 100,000 open-source Iconify icons. Uses the unocss format for icon names, for example, i-mdi-home.

Modules/Plugins

• Pinegrow Vite Plugin - enables you to live-design your Vue single-file components visually in Vue Designer.
• Pinegrow PrimeVue Plugin - via Design Panel, enables theme customization (optional) and visual controls for Primevue utilities. Note: This is an addon that's licensed separately to Pinegrow apps (like Vue Designer).
• unplugin-vue-router - Next-gen file based routing with type support for Vue Router.
• vite-plugin-vue-layouts - Router based layout for Vue applications using Vite.
• 📲 unplugin-vue-components - On-demand components auto importing for Vue.
• 📲 unplugin-auto-import - Auto import APIs on-demand for Vite, Webpack and Rollup.
• VueUse - collection of essential Vue composition utilities.
• 🍍 Pinia stores for global state management. Its light-weight, type-safe, extensible, modular with vue-devtools support.
• VeeValidate takes care of value tracking, validation, errors, submissions and more.

Devtools

• Vite Devtools - A Vite plugin for Vue that enhances your DX (developer experience) with an amazing set of in-app features. This is an in-app alternative to browser-based/standalone Vue Devtools.
• Vue Devtools - Official devtools that can be used as a standalone app alongside Vue Designer. It's conditionally configured in main.ts (only during development).
  • ACTION REQUIRED: Currently deactivated. In main.ts, uncomment the top devtools related snippet to activate.

VS Code Extensions

• VS Code Extensions
  • Volar - Vue 3 <script setup> IDE support
  • ESLint
  • Prettier

Coding Style

• Use Composition API with <script setup> SFC syntax
• ESLint with eslint-plugin-vue - official set of linting rules.
• Prettier with @vue/eslint-config-prettier - format without conflicting with eslint rules.

Typescript

This project allows JS, and strict mode is turned off. Update tsconfig.ts as required.

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    // ...
    "strict": false,
    "allowJs": true
  }
}

Community

• Vue Designer Community