vite-aliases

Alias auto generation for Vite 5

Usage

Install

npm i vite-aliases -D

Add it to vite.config.js

// vite.config.js
import { ViteAliases } from 'vite-aliases'

export default {
  plugins: [
    ViteAliases()
  ]
};

Add this to package.json (Plugin is only available for ESM)

{
  "type": "module"
}

That's it!

Based on your Folderstructure, it will now automatically generate all needed aliases.
You can configure it to any desired Depth, but it is recommend to stay on the first Level!
Furthermore it will use your native OS filesystem, so it works on Linux, Mac, Windows and other OS.

This structure:

src
  assets
  components
  pages
  store
  utils

will generate the following:

[
  {
    find: '@',
    replacement: '${your_project_path}/src'
  },
  {
    find: '@assets',
    replacement: '${your_project_path}/src/assets'
  },
  {
    find: '@components',
    replacement: '${your_project_path}/src/components'
  },
  {
    find: '@pages',
    replacement: '${your_project_path}/src/pages'
  },
  {
    find: '@store',
    replacement: '${your_project_path}/src/store'
  },
  {
    find: '@utils',
    replacement: '${your_project_path}/src/utils'
  },
]

Best Practice

vite-aliases is meant to simply take the first Layer of your folders and turn it into useful Shortcuts.
Therefore i advise you to use the default Configuration and not use folders with the same name, otherwise it will create an Error.

If however you need duplicate Foldernames, enable adjustDuplicates.
This will turn the entire Filepath of said duplicate into the alias itself, like shown in the Example below.

Example:

`src/components` -> `@components`
`src/pages/components` -> `@pagesComponents`
`src/test/new/partials/components` -> `@testNewPartialsComponents`

and so on..

Configuration

Current available options:

ViteAliases({
  /**
  * Relative path to the project directory
  */
  dir: 'src',

  /**
  * Prefix symbol for the aliases
  */
  prefix: '~',

  /**
  * Allow searching for subdirectories
  */
  deep: true,

  /**
  * Search depthlevel for subdirectories
  */
  depth: 1,

  /**
  * Creates a Logfile
  * use `logPath` to change the location
  */
  createLog: false,

  /**
  * Path for Logfile
  */
  logPath: 'src/logs',

  /**
  * Create global project directory alias
  */
  createGlobalAlias: true,

  /**
  * Turns duplicates into camelCased path aliases
  */
  adjustDuplicates: false,

  /**
  * Used paths in JS/TS configs will now be relative to baseUrl
  */
  useAbsolute: false,

  /**
  * Adds seperate index paths
  * approach created by @davidohlin
  */
  useIndexes: false,

  /**
  * Generates paths in IDE config file
  * works with JS or TS
  */
  useConfig: true,

  /**
  * Override config paths
  */
  ovrConfig: false,

  /**
  * Will generate Paths in tsconfig
  * used in combination with `useConfig`
  * Typescript will be auto detected
  */
  dts: false,

  /**
  * Disables any terminal output
  */
  silent: true,

  /**
  * Root path of Vite project
  */
  root: process.cwd()
});

Thanks

Thanks to @brattonross and @antfu, due to this tiny library beeing inspired by both projects:

vite-plugin-voie

unplugin-vue-components.

License

MIT License © 2020-PRESENT Leon Langer