create-indie-app

Scaffolding Your First Indie Project

Compatibility Note: Vite requires Node.js version 18+, 20+. However, some templates require a higher Node.js version to work, please upgrade if your package manager warns about it.

With NPM:

$ npm create indie-app@latest

With Yarn:

$ yarn create indie-app

With PNPM:

$ pnpm create indie-app

With Bun:

$ bun create indie-app

Then follow the prompts!

You can also directly specify the project name and the template you want to use via additional command line options. For example, to scaffold a Vite + Vue project, run:

# npm 7+, extra double-dash is needed:
npm create indie-app@latest my-vue-app -- --template vue

# yarn
yarn create indie-app my-vue-app --template vue

# pnpm
pnpm create indie-app my-vue-app --template vue

# Bun
bun create indie-app my-vue-app --template vue

Currently supported template presets include:

• vanilla
• vanilla-ts
• vue
• vue-ts

You can use . for the project name to scaffold in the current directory.

Community Templates

create-indie-app is a tool to quickly start a project from a basic template for popular frameworks. Check out Awesome Vite for community maintained templates that include other tools or target different frameworks. You can use a tool like degit to scaffold your project with one of the templates.

npx degit user/project my-project
cd my-project

npm install
npm run dev

If the project uses main as the default branch, suffix the project repo with #main

npx degit user/project#main my-project