diff --git a/src/node/utils/resolveVue.ts b/src/node/utils/resolveVue.ts
index f975d4725fd654..44304fa23eee20 100644
--- a/src/node/utils/resolveVue.ts
+++ b/src/node/utils/resolveVue.ts
@@ -42,12 +42,13 @@ export function resolveVue(root: string): ResolvedVuePaths {
   if (isLocal) {
     // user has local vue, verify that the same version of @vue/compiler-sfc
     // is also installed.
-    // vuePath will be undefined in this case since vue itself will be
-    // optimized by the deps optimizer and we can just let the resolver locate
-    // it.
     try {
       const userVuePkg = resolveFrom(root, 'vue/package.json')
       vueVersion = require(userVuePkg).version
+      vuePath = resolveFrom(
+        root,
+        '@vue/runtime-dom/dist/runtime-dom.esm-bundler.js'
+      )
       const compilerPkgPath = resolveFrom(
         root,
         '@vue/compiler-sfc/package.json'