Scaffold a new Vite + React (TypeScript) application with npm create vite
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Documented steps
Ensure Node.js 20.19+ or 22.12+ is installed (Vite's current requirement); check with node -v
Run npm create vite@latest <project-name> -- --template react-ts where <project-name> is the target directory; the extra -- is required so npm passes --template to the scaffolder rather than consuming it
Use the same command with a leading dot (npm create vite@latest . -- --template react-ts) to scaffold into the current directory
If you need a different framework, pick a template from vanilla, vue, react, react-compiler, react-ts, react-compiler-ts, preact, svelte, solid, qwik, lit (all have -ts variants)
Add --no-interactive to skip the interactive prompts when running non-interactively (e.g. in CI scripts)
cd into the project, then npm install to pull dependencies, then npm run dev to start the dev server on http://localhost:5173 with HMR
Run npm run build for a production build (Rolldown-bundled static assets) and npm run preview to serve it locally
Known gotchas
On npm 7+, arguments intended for the scaffolder after the package spec MUST be preceded by -- (double dash); otherwise npm treats them as its own flags
Vite requires a relatively recent Node.js (20.19+/22.12+) for the current major; some templates need an even higher version
index.html is the Vite entry point (module graph root), not a file in public/; scripts are loaded via script type=module
The dev server assumes a modern browser and does minimal syntax lowering; production builds target about mid-2023 browser versions by default
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