vue-dev-plugin

vue-dev-plugin

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Introduction

A vue plugin which provides the ability that to jump to the local IDE when you click the element of browser automatically. It supports Vue2 & 3.

Supports:

name	version	support
webpack	4
webpack	5
vite	latest

Installation

# pnpm 
pnpm install vue-dev-plugin -D

# yarn
yarn add vue-dev-plugin -D

# npm
npm install vue-dev-plugin -D

Usage

Configuration Webpack

// for webpack (4，5)

const { defineConfig } = require('@vue/cli-service')
const { useVueDevPlugin } = require('vue-dev-plugin')

module.exports = defineConfig({
  transpileDependencies: true,
  chainWebpack:(config) => {
  
// [warning]It is only recommended to use in the development environment
   if(process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') {
       useVueDevPlugin(config)
   } 
  }
})

Configuration Vite

// for vite

import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
import vue from '@vitejs/plugin-vue'
import  { ViteDevPlugin } from 'vue-dev-plugin'

// https://vitejs.dev/config/
export default defineConfig({
  // [warning]It is only recommended to use in the development environment
  plugins: [vue(), ViteDevPlugin()],
})

Configuration IDE / Editor

It uses an environment variable named VUE_EDITOR to specify an IDE application, but if you do not set this variable, it will try to open a common IDE that you have open or installed once it is certified.

For example, if you want it always open VSCode when inspection clicked, set export VUE_EDITOR=code in your shell.

VSCode

• install VSCode command line tools, [see the official docs]

• set env to shell, like .bashrc or .zshrc

  export VUE_EDITOR=code

WebStorm

• just set env with an absolute path to shell, like .bashrc or .zshrc (only MacOS)

  export VUE_EDITOR='/Applications/WebStorm.app/Contents/MacOS/webstorm'

OR

• install WebStorm command line tools

• then set env to shell, like .bashrc or .zshrc

  export VUE_EDITOR=webstorm

Vim

Yes! you can also use vim if you want, just set env to shell

export VUE_EDITOR=vim

Notice

• It only work in develop mode .
• It does not currently support SSR and Template Engine (e.g. pug) .

️ Analysis of Theory

Future

Some good ideas are welcome.

License

MIT LICENSE