A lot of people have been asking how to do electron in vite vue 3 so here it is.

Step 1:

Were going to go straight a head and create a Vite project by running:

// run this and choose vue as your template,
// you can choose typescript or js. whatever you want.
yarn create vite

Step 2:

Next cd to your project folder, and let as also add dependencies that we will need for our electron development and building.

yarn add -D concurrently cross-env electron electron-builder wait-on

Be Sure to install all dependencies by running

yarn install

Step 3:

Let us edit our package.json. Let us add build property. You can read more about this electron.build website.

 "build": {
    "appId": "com.my-website.my-app",
    "productName": "MyApp",
    "copyright": "Copyright © 2019 ${author}",
    "mac": {
      "category": "public.app-category.utilities"
    },
    "nsis": {
      "oneClick": false,
      "allowToChangeInstallationDirectory": true
    },
    "files": [
      "dist/**/*",
      "electron/**/*"
    ],
    "directories": {
      "buildResources": "assets",
      "output": "dist_electron"
    }
  }

and then let us also add some scripts in our package.json

"scripts": {
    "dev": "vite",
    "build": "vue-tsc --noEmit && vite build",
    "serve": "vite preview",
    "electron": "wait-on tcp:3000 && cross-env IS_DEV=true electron .",
    "electron:pack": "electron-builder --dir",
    "electron:dev": "concurrently -k \"cross-env BROWSER=none yarn dev\" \"yarn electron\"",
    "electron:builder": "electron-builder",
    "build:for:electron": "vue-tsc --noEmit && cross-env ELECTRON=true vite build",
    "app:build": "yarn build:for:electron && yarn electron:builder"
  },

Let us also dont forget yo add author and main in our package.json file.

{
  "name": "vite-electron-app-test",
  "author": "BroJenuel",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "main": "electron/electron.js",
  ...
}

Step 4:

let us edit our vite.config.js or vite.config.ts

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

// https://vitejs.dev/config/
export default defineConfig({
  base: process.env.ELECTRON=="true" ? './' : ".",
  plugins: [vue()]
})

if we are running in electron production, the base will change.

Step 5:

Let us create a new folder and let us call it electron inside this we will create an electron.js.

// electron/electron.js
const path = require('path');
const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron');

const isDev = process.env.IS_DEV == "true" ? true : false;

function createWindow() {
  // Create the browser window.
  const mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    webPreferences: {
      preload: path.join(__dirname, 'preload.js'),
      nodeIntegration: true,
    },
  });

  // and load the index.html of the app.
  // win.loadFile("index.html");
  mainWindow.loadURL(
    isDev
      ? 'http://localhost:3000'
      : `file://${path.join(__dirname, '../dist/index.html')}`
  );
  // Open the DevTools.
  if (isDev) {
    mainWindow.webContents.openDevTools();
  }
}

// This method will be called when Electron has finished
// initialization and is ready to create browser windows.
// Some APIs can only be used after this event occurs.
app.whenReady().then(() => {
  createWindow()
  app.on('activate', function () {
    // On macOS it's common to re-create a window in the app when the
    // dock icon is clicked and there are no other windows open.
    if (BrowserWindow.getAllWindows().length === 0) createWindow()
  })
});

// Quit when all windows are closed, except on macOS. There, it's common
// for applications and their menu bar to stay active until the user quits
// explicitly with Cmd + Q.
app.on('window-all-closed', () => {
  if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
    app.quit();
  }
});

and create another file preload.js.

// electron/preload.js

// All of the Node.js APIs are available in the preload process.
// It has the same sandbox as a Chrome extension.
window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
    const replaceText = (selector, text) => {
      const element = document.getElementById(selector)
      if (element) element.innerText = text
    }

    for (const dependency of ['chrome', 'node', 'electron']) {
      replaceText(`${dependency}-version`, process.versions[dependency])
    }
  })

step 6: And your done 👍👍

Run yarn electron:dev to work with electron in development mode.

yarn electron:dev

Run yarn app:build to build your electron app.

yarn app:build

Run yarn dev to open vite in browser in development mode.

yarn dev

Run yarn build to build files and can be served.

yarn build

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