create-vite vs create-vue for scaffolding a VueJS project

[SayakMukhopadhyay]

I have noticed that the VueJS documentation recommends using create-vue to scaffold whereas the Vite docs recommend using create-vite with the vue template.

To make matters more confusing, the Vuetify docs also recommend using create-vite.

What should someone do? Are there separate use cases for each of them?

[thiswallz]

you should be fine with Vite option, since has a lot of improvements for building time/hot reload speed, the difference is more or less the building process. I guess in the future vite will be the standard for creation.

[SayakMukhopadhyay]

Just to clarify, create-vue from VueJS also uses vite. Since both create-vue and create-vite uses, well, vite, there should not be any big difference in their build speeds right? In that case, which should be the go to starter?

[patak-dev]

You should use create-vue. We have now added an option in create-vite linking to it when you choose vue. create-vite is a way to test Vite with your favorite framework, but it is explicitly barebones. You don't get a testing setup, linting, formatting, etc. It isn't a replacement in React for CRA for example. Each framework community should create and maintain its own starter, the maintenance cost is too high to do this in Vite core. This is where create-vue comes in, and it is the official starter. I think Vuetify docs should be updated to point to create-vue too, maybe you could create an issue or PR in their repo.

[thiswallz]

thats nice info!, thanks, and sure, I know other repos too where i can help a bit with this. thanks

[SayakMukhopadhyay]

Thanks for clearing this up! Yeah, I have created a PR in Vuetify docs and will back link to this discussion. This will be helpful to support the PR.