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Vite

Last modified: 26 February 2025

Required plugins:

JavaScript and TypeScript  -  The plugin is bundled with GoLand and enabled by default.

Vite  -  Install the plugin on the Settings | Plugins page, tab Marketplace.

GoLand integrates with the Vite build tool that improves the frontend development experience. Vite consists of a dev server and a build command. The build server serves your source files over native ES modules. The build command bundles your code with Rollup, which is pre-configured to output highly optimized static assets for production.

GoLand supports tsconfig.json and jsconfig.json path mappings in Vue style tags and recognizes Vite aliases.

In projects that consist of multiple modules with different Vite configurations, GoLand can automatically detect the relevant configuration file for each module and use the module resolution rules from it, refer to Specifying the Vite configuration file to use below.

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GoLand integration with Vite requires that the vite package should be installed in your project or globally. Therefore, either create an application with create-vite or install the vite package manually. To work with an existing Vite app, make sure your package.json lists Vite before running npm install.

Before you start

Create a new Vite application

The recommended way to start a new Vite application is the create-vite package, which GoLand downloads and runs for you using npx. As a result, your development environment is preconfigured to use Vite and a basic template for one of the popular frameworks, such as, React, Vue.js, Svelte, etc.

Of course, you can still download create-vite yourself or create an empty GoLand project and install Vite in it.

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Learn more about starting with Vite from the Vite.js official website.

Generate a Vite application with create-vite

  1. Click Create New Project on the Welcome screen or select File | New | Project from the main menu. The New Project dialog opens.

  2. In the left-hand pane, choose Vite.

  3. In the right-hand pane:

    1. Specify the path to the folder where the project-related files will be stored.

    2. In the Node Interpreter field, specify the Node.js interpreter to use. Select a configured interpreter from the list or choose Add to configure a new one.

    3. From the Vite list, select npx create-vite.

      Alternatively, for npm version 5.1 and earlier, install the create-vite package yourself by running npm install --g create-vite in the Terminal AltF12. When creating an application, select the folder where the create-vite package is stored.

    4. From the Template list, select the community maintained Vite template that targets the framework you are going to use in your application.

    5. Optionally:

      To use TypeScript instead of JavaScript, select the Use TypeScript template checkbox. GoLand will generate .ts files for your application and a tsconfig.json configuration file.

  4. When you click Create, GoLand generates a Vite-specific project with all the required configuration files and downloads the required dependencies. GoLand also creates an npm dev configurations with default settings for running your application.

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Alternatively, open the built-in Terminal and type:

  1. npx create-vite <application-name> to create an application.

  2. cd <application-name> to switch to the application folder.

  3. npm start to start the Node.js server.

Install Vite in an empty GoLand project

In this case, you will have to configure the build pipeline yourself. Learn more about adding Vite to a project from the Vite official website.

Create an empty GoLand project

  1. Click Create New Project on the Welcome screen or select File | New | Project from the main menu. The New Project dialog opens.

  2. In the left-hand pane, choose Empty Project. In the right-hand pane, specify the application folder and click Create.

Install Vite in an empty project

  1. Open the empty project where you will use Vite.

  2. In the embedded Terminal (AltF12) , type:

    npm install --save-dev vite

Start with an existing Vite application

To continue developing an existing Vite application, open it in GoLand and download the required dependencies.

Open the application sources that are already on your machine

  • Click Open on the Welcome screen or select File | Open from the main menu. In the dialog that opens, select the folder where your sources are stored.

Check out the application sources from your version control

  1. Click Clone Repository on the Welcome screen.

    Alternatively, select Git | Clone or VCS | Get from Version Control from the main menu.

    Instead of Git in the main menu, you may see any other Version Control System that is associated with your project. For example, Mercurial or Perforce.

  2. In the dialog that opens, select your version control system from the list and specify the repository to check out the application sources from. For more information, refer to Check out a project (clone).

Download the dependencies

  • Click Run 'npm install' or Run 'yarn install' in the popup:

    You can use npm, Yarn 1, or Yarn 2, refer to npm and Yarn for details.

  • Alternatively, select Run 'npm install' or Run 'yarn install' from the context menu of package.json in the editor or in the Project tool window Alt01.

    Opening an Angular application and downloading the dependencies from package.json

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Make sure your package.json lists the vite package under dependencies or devDependencies. That is necessary because GoLand integration with Vite, especially autodetecting configuration files, requires that the vite package should be installed in your project or globally.

Project security

When you open a project that was created outside GoLand and was imported into it, GoLand displays a dialog where you can decide how to handle this project with unfamiliar source code.

Untrusted project warning

Select one of the following options:

  • Preview in Safe Mode: in this case, GoLand opens the project in a preview mode. It means that you can browse the project's sources but you cannot run tasks and script or run/debug your project.

    GoLand displays a notification on top of the editor area, and you can click the Trust project link and load your project at any time.

  • Trust Project: in this case, GoLand opens and loads a project. That means the project is initialized, project's plugins are resolved, dependencies are added, and all GoLand features are available.

  • Don't Open: in this case, GoLand doesn't open the project.

Learn more from Project security.

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Projects created from the Welcome screen or via File | New | Project as described in are automatically considered trusted.

Configure Vite in GoLand

Create Vite configuration files

  • Create one or several configuration files depending on your project structure: select a parent folder in the Project tool window Alt01 and then select New | JavaScript file from the context menu.

    Create a Vite configuration file

    The acceptable names are vite.config.js/vite.config.ts, vite.config.mjs, or vite.config.cjs.

    Learn more from the Vite official website.

  • If necessary, use alias that will be later recognized in import statements. Make sure you specify absolute paths in definitions of aliases. Learn more from the Vite official website.

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Specify the Vite configuration files to use

Based on the analysis of a Vite configuration file, GoLand understands the Vite configuration, resolves modules, and provides coding assistance in JavaScript and TypeScript files.

In GoLand, you can choose between two configuration modes – automatic and manual.

With automatic configuration, GoLand auto-detects the relevant Vite configuration file for each JavaScript or TypeScript file.

With manual configuration, you specify the Vite configuration file to use in your project. Manual configuration is useful if the name of your Vite configuration file is not recognized by GoLand, refer to the list of recognized Vite config names below.

Choose how to detect Vite configuration

  1. Open the Settings dialog (CtrlAlt0S) and go to Languages & Frameworks | JavaScript | Vite.

  2. In the Detect Vite configuration files for module resolution area, select one of the following options:

    • Automatically: In this mode, for a JavaScript or TypeScript file, GoLand will first look for a Vite configuration file in the folder where this JavaScript or TypeScript file is located, then in its parent folder, and so on.

      As a result, if your project consists of multiple modules with different Vite configurations, each module will use the module resolution rules from its own Vite configuration file (if such config is found).

      GoLand recognizes JavaScript or TypeScript Vite configuration files with the following names and in the following order:

      • vite.config.js/vite.config.ts

      • vite.config.mjs

      • vite.config.cjs

    • Manually: In the Configuration file field, specify the location of the Vite config to use.

      In this mode, the resolution rules from the specified configuration file will be applied to all modules in your project.

      Select this option if the name of your Vite configuration file is not recognized by GoLand, refer to the list of recognized Vite config names above.

      Select a vite configuration file manually

Run a Vite application

Run a Vite application via a run/debug configuration

For applications created with create-vite in the GoLand New Project wizard as described above, GoLand generates an npm configuration with the default name npm dev. This configuration runs the vite command that launches the development server and starts your application in the development mode.

In other cases, you need to create a run/debug configuration with the actual settings, such as, host, port, etc., manually.

Create an npm run/debug configuration

  1. Go to Run | Edit Configurations. Alternatively, select Edit Configurations from the Run widget on the toolbar.

    Open the Edit Configurations dialog

    In the Edit Configurations dialog that opens, click the Add button (the Add button) on the toolbar and select npm from the list.

  2. In the Configuration tab of the Run/Debug Configurations: npm dialog that opens, specify the location of the package.json, the Node.js interpreter, and the package manager to use.

    In the Command field, select run from the list and then select the script to run from the Scripts list. Most likely it will be the default dev script but you can configure another one in your package.json, for example, to run the application on a custom port.

    npm run/debug configuration

  3. Optionally:

    To open the application in the browser, update the configuration as follows: in the Browser / Live Edit tab, select the After launch checkbox, select the browser to open the application in, and specify the URL address at which the application wil run.

    If you are going to debug the application, select Google Chrome or another Chromium-based browser.

    Browser / Live Edit tab: select browser

Run an application

  1. Select the npm dev run configuration from the list on the toolbar and click Run next to it.

    Run a Vite app in the development mode via a run/debug configuration

  2. Wait till the application is compiled and the development server is ready.

    The Run tool window or the Terminal shows the URL at which your application is running. Click this link to view the application.

    Alternatively, enable GoLand to open the application on start as described above.

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    When the development server is running, your application is automatically reloaded as soon as you change any of the source files and save the updates.

Debug a Vite application

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Debugging of Vite applications is only supported in Google Chrome and in other Chromium-based browsers.

You can start a debugging session either by launching a run/debug configuration or from the Run tool window that shows the URL at which your application is running in the development mode.

Start debugging via a run/debug configuration

To debug your Vite application you need two run/debug configurations:

  • An npm configuration to start your application in the development mode, as described above.

  • A JavaScript Debug configuration to attach the debugger to the application that is running in the development mode.

You can create a JavaScript Debug configuration within the npm configuration to launch them at once, as described in Run and debug a Vite application with an npm run/debug configuration.

Alternatively, create and launch an npm and a JavaScript Debug run/debug configurations separately, as described in Start debugging with a JavaScript Debug run/debug configuration.

Run and debug a Vite application with a single npm run/debug configuration

  1. Set the breakpoints in your code.

  2. Create an npm configuration as described above.

    If you generated your application with create-vite, GoLand has already created an npm configuration with the default name npm dev. The configuration is available from the Run widget and in the Run/Debug Configurations dialog.

    Autogenerated npm run/debug configuration

  3. In the Configuration tab of the Run/Debug Configurations: npm dialog that opens, specify the location of the package.json, the Node.js interpreter, and the package manager to use.

    In the Command field, select run from the list and then select the script to run from the Scripts list. Most likely it will be the default dev script but you can configure another one in your package.json, for example, to run the application on a custom port.

    npm run/debug configuration

  4. In the Browser / Live Edit tab, select the After launch checkbox, select Google Chrome or another Chromium-based browser from the list, select the with JavaScript debugger checkbox, and then specify the URL at which your application will run.

    npm configuration, Browser tab

  5. Click Run.

    To re-run the configuration, select it from the list in the Run widget and click Run next to it.

    GoLand runs the application in the development mode and at the same time launches a debugging session.

    Debugging session

  6. When the first breakpoint is hit, switch to the Debug tool window and proceed as usual: step through the program, stop and resume program execution, examine it when suspended, explore the call stack and variables, set watches, evaluate variables, view actual HTML DOM, and so on.

Start debugging with a JavaScript Debug run/debug configuration

  1. Set the breakpoints in your code.

  2. Start the application in the development mode as described above and wait till the application is compiled and the development server is ready.

    The Run tool window or the Terminal shows the URL at which your application is running. Copy this URL to specify it later in the JavaScript Debug configuration.

    Application is running in the development mode

  3. Create a JavaScript Debug configuration. To do that, go to Run | Edit Configurations in the main menu, click the Add icon, and select Javascript Debug from the list.

  4. In the Run/Debug Configurations: JavaScript Debug dialog that opens, specify the name of the configuration and the URL address at which the application is running in the development mode. You can copy this URL in the Run tool window or in the Terminal, as described above.

    Create a JavaScript Debug configuration: specify the URL

  5. Click Debug.

    To re-run the configuration, select it from the list in the Run widget and click Debug next to it.

    Run a JavaScript Debug configuration from the Run widget

  6. When the first breakpoint is hit, switch to the Debug tool window and proceed as usual: step through the program, stop and resume program execution, examine it when suspended, explore the call stack and variables, set watches, evaluate variables, view actual HTML DOM, and so on.

Start debugging from the Run tool window or from the built-in Terminal

If your application is running in the development mode on localhost, in particular, if it was generated with create-vite, you can launch a debugging session right from the >Run tool window or from the built-in Terminal.

When the first breakpoint is hit, switch to the Debug tool window and proceed as usual: step through the program, stop and resume program execution, examine it when suspended, explore the call stack and variables, set watches, evaluate variables, view actual HTML DOM, and so on.

Troubleshooting for Node.js 17+

If you are using Node.js version 17 or later, during a debugging session you may face network connectivity issues that result in problems with attaching the debugger or with loading sourcemaps.

The workaround is to pass --host 127.0.0.1 to the server. You can do that in one of the following ways:

  • Update the dev script in your package.json:

    "dev": "vite --host=127.0.0.1"

  • Alternatively, add dns.setDefaultResultOrder('ipv4first') to your vite.config.ts.