README

This ProcessWire module allows you to use the laravel-vite plugin with ProcessWire. After installation, you can use the vite() helper to include assets that have been processed by Vite in your ProcessWire project.

<!doctype html>
<head>
  <?= vite(['assets/css/app.css', 'assets/js/app.js']) ?>
</head>

Note
Some features are not properly documented yet. Feel free to skim through the source code if you think something is missing.

Ready-to-use Configuration Files

When the module is installed, it will copy ready-to-use configuration files from the stubs directory to your templates directory. These files provide a starting point for your Vite configuration.

You can examine these configuration files in the stubs directory on GitHub to better understand the default setup.

Installation

As with most ProcessWire modules, you can use one of three different methods of installation:

Installation

As with most ProcessWire modules, you can use one of three different methods of installation:

Install the module from the modules directory:

Composer

composer require trk/processwire-vite Vite

Git Submodule

git submodule add https://github.com/trk/processwire-vite.git site{-*}/modules/Vite

Download

Download and copy this repository to /site{-*}/modules/Vite.

Installing The Laravel Vite Plugin

Documentation for the Laravel Vite plugin can be found on the Laravel website.

If you're starting a new frontend project, you need to pick a base folder where your unprocessed frontend code is located. Typically this is also the main folder of your ProcessWire project. So inside your main project folder (same folder where you can find your composer.json), run

npm run init

to initialize a new npm project. Now you can run

npm install --save-dev vite laravel-vite-plugin

to install the Vite and the Laravel Vite plugin.

It's also a good idea to add the commands to run Vite to your package.json (if they don't exist already):

  "scripts": {
    "build": "vite build",
    "dev": "vite"
  }

Now you can tell Vite about the newly installed plugin by creating a new vite.config.js with the following content:

import { defineConfig } from 'vite';
import laravel from 'laravel-vite-plugin';

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    laravel(['assets/css/app.css', 'assets/js/app.js']),
  ],
});

Refreshing On Save

When your application is built using traditional server-side rendering, Vite can improve your development workflow by automatically refreshing the browser when you make changes to template or snippet files in your application. To get started, you can simply specify the refresh option.

export default defineConfig({
    plugins: [
        laravel({
            input: [
                'assets/css/app.css',
                'assets/js/app.js',
            ],
            refresh: [
                '/**',
                '/**/**',
                '../classes/**'
            ],
        }),   
    ]
});

Autoloading Template Specific Assets

If you used the @auto option for your assets, you can do the same with optional assets.

Optional Assets

When you use prepend an @ to an asset, those assets are treated as optional. Meaning the plugin will only include assets that actually exist at the given source path.

<!doctype html>
<head>
  <?= vite([
    // Equivalent to this
    '@assets/css/templates/' . $page->template->name . '.css',
    '@assets/js/templates/' . $page->template->name . '.js',
  ]) ?>
</head>

Note
Remember to include the optional assets in vite as well so that they are actually available once bundled. Assets not included in vite will work in development mode but not when bundled.

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
      laravel([
        'assets/css/app.css',
        'assets/css/templates/home.css',
        'assets/js/app.js',
        'assets/js/templates/home.js',
      ]),
  ]
});

React

If you build your front-end using the React framework you will also need to call the additional vite()->reactRefresh() method alongside your existing vite() call.

<?= vite()->reactRefresh() ?>
<?= vite('assets/js/app.jsx') ?>

The vite()->reactRefresh() method must be called before the vite() call.

Processing Static Assets With Vite

When referencing assets in your JavaScript or CSS, Vite automatically processes and versions them. In addition, when your application is built using traditional server-side rendering, Vite can also process and version static assets that you reference in your templates.

However, in order to accomplish this, you need to make Vite aware of your assets by importing the static assets into the application's entry point. For example, if you want to process and version all images stored in assets/images and all fonts stored in assets/fonts, you should add the following in your application's assets/js/app.js entry point:

import.meta.glob([
  '../images/**',
  '../fonts/**',
]);

These assets will now be processed by Vite when running npm run build. You can then reference these assets in your templates using the vite()->asset() method, which will return the versioned URL for a given asset:

<img src="<?= vite()->asset('assets/images/logo.png') ?>">

Arbitrary Attributes

If you need to include additional attributes on your script and style tags, such as the data-turbo-track attribute, you may specify them via the plugin options.

setting('vite.scriptTagAttributes', [
    'data-turbo-track' => 'reload', // Specify a value for the attribute...
    'async'            => true,     // Specify an attribute without a value...
    'integrity'        => false,    // Exclude an attribute that would otherwise be included...
]);

setting('vite.styleTagAttributes', [
    'data-turbo-track' => 'reload',
]);

If you need to conditionally add attributes, you may pass a callback that will receive the asset source path, its URL, its manifest chunk, and the entire manifest:

setting('vite.scriptTagAttributes', fn (string $src, string $url, array $chunk, array $manifest) => [
    'data-turbo-track' => $src === 'assets/js/app.js' ? 'reload' : false,
]);

setting('vite.styleTagAttributes', fn (string $src, string $url, array $chunk, array $manifest) => [
    'data-turbo-track' => $chunk && $chunk['isEntry'] ? 'reload' : false,
]);

Note
The $chunk and $manifest arguments will be empty while the Vite development server is running.

Advanced Customization

Out of the box, Laravel's Vite plugin uses sensible conventions that should work for the majority of applications. However, sometimes you may need to customize Vite's behavior. To enable additional customization options, you can use the following options:

setting('vite', [
    'hotFile' => fn () => wire('config')->paths->root . 'vite.hot',
    'buildDirectory' => 'bundle',
    'manifest' => 'assets.json'
]);

Note If you need access to the View instance, you can use a callback function to define the option. Alternatively, you can configure Vite before load assets or in the template.

vite()->instance()
    ->useHotFile(wire('config')->paths->root . 'vite.hot')
    ->useBuildDirectory('bundle')
    ->useManifest('assets.json');

<!doctype html>
<head>
  <?=
    vite()->useHotFile(wire('config')->paths->root . 'vite.hot')
          ->useBuildDirectory('bundle')
          ->useManifest('assets.json')
          ->withEntries(['assets/js/app.js'])
  ?>
</head>

Within the vite.config.js file, you should then specify the same configuration:

import { defineConfig } from 'vite';
import laravel from 'laravel-vite-plugin';

export default defineConfig({
    plugins: [
        laravel({
            hotFile: '/vite.hot',
            buildDirectory: 'bundle',
            input: [
              'assets/js/app.js',
            ],
        }),
    ],
    build: {
      manifest: 'assets.json',
    },
});

Commercial Usage

This plugin is free of charge, but please consider a donation if you use it in a commercial project.

License

MIT

Credits

A good portion of the documentation has been copied from the Laravel website and adapted to the ProcessWire implementation.

trk / processwire-vite

Maintainers

Details

README

Ready-to-use Configuration Files

Installation

Installation

Composer

Git Submodule

Download

Installing The Laravel Vite Plugin

Refreshing On Save

Autoloading Template Specific Assets

Optional Assets

React

Processing Static Assets With Vite

Arbitrary Attributes

Advanced Customization

Commercial Usage

License

Credits