A technical guide for configuring, optimizing, and troubleshooting Vite for high-performance web development and library distribution.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install vite
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install vite using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Vite?
Vite is a modern build tool designed to provide a fast and lean development experience for web projects. This entry in the Openclaw Skills library provides expert-level patterns for managing environment variables, resolving CommonJS compatibility issues, and optimizing build outputs. By leveraging Openclaw Skills, developers can ensure their projects are correctly configured for both client-side interactivity and robust production performance using ESM-first principles.
Vite Use Cases
- Managing environment variables securely by using the VITE_ prefix for client-side exposure.
- Resolving CommonJS and ESM compatibility issues using Openclaw Skills pre-bundling strategies.
- Implementing path aliases and development server proxies to streamline local developer workflows.
- Optimizing production bundles with manual code splitting and asset hashing.
- Developing and bundling npm libraries with dual ESM and CommonJS support.
How Vite Works
- Identify the project type to determine the appropriate Vite configuration for applications or libraries.
- Configure environment variables within .env files to control behavior across development and production modes.
- Optimize the development server by managing dependency pre-bundling through the optimizeDeps configuration.
- Define path aliases and server-side proxies as specified in the Openclaw Skills standards to handle complex API routing.
- Execute a build lifecycle that includes Rollup-based optimization, CSS code splitting, and SSR externalization where required.
Vite Setup
Ensure that Node.js is installed on your system. To integrate these patterns into your project using Openclaw Skills, follow these steps:
# Install Vite as a development dependency
npm install vite --save-dev
# To clear the dependency cache and force a fresh pre-bundle
rm -rf node_modules/.vite
Vite Data Schema & Taxonomy
Vite manages data and assets through a specific directory structure and metadata taxonomy as defined by Openclaw Skills:
| Component | Description |
|---|---|
vite.config.ts |
The primary configuration file for all build and server logic. |
.env.local |
Local environment overrides that are excluded from version control. |
public/ |
Directory for static assets that bypass the transformation pipeline. |
src/assets/ |
Directory for assets that are processed, hashed, and bundled. |
node_modules/.vite |
A local cache directory for optimized dependency pre-bundling. |
Vite Advanced Features
- Library Mode: Utilize build.lib to generate optimized npm packages with automatic ESM and CJS formatting.
- Server-Side Rendering (SSR): Configure externalization and CSS inlining for complex server-rendered architectures using Openclaw Skills.
- HMR Troubleshooting: Implement custom logic with import.meta.hot to handle state preservation during rapid iteration.
- Bundle Analysis: Integrate rollup-plugin-visualizer to identify and eliminate bloated dependencies in the production build.
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