create-vite-ai

The ultimate Vite scaffolding tool for AI agents. Built for seamless automation, predictable behavior, and perfect integration with Claude, GPT, and any AI coding assistant.

AI-Optimized: create-vite-ai is designed from the ground up for AI agent workflows. No interactive prompts, deterministic output, clean exit codes.

Why AI Agents Choose create-vite-ai

• Non-Interactive Mode: Works perfectly in automated pipelines - no stdin prompts
• Clean CLI Interface: Predictable arguments, no surprise interactions
• Reliable Exit Codes: Always returns 0 on success, meaningful errors on failure
• Fast Execution: Minimal overhead, instant template generation
• Scriptable: Perfect for AI agents that need to scaffold, test, and iterate

Scaffolding Your First Vite Project

With NPM:

npm create vite-ai@latest

With Yarn:

yarn create vite-ai

With PNPM:

pnpm create vite-ai

With Bun:

bun create vite-ai

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 vite-ai@latest my-vue-app -- --template vue

# yarn
yarn create vite-ai my-vue-app --template vue

# pnpm
pnpm create vite-ai my-vue-app --template vue

# bun
bun create vite-ai my-vue-app

AI Agent Quick Start

The perfect workflow for AI coding assistants:

# 1. Create project
npm create vite-ai@latest my-app -- --template react-ts

# 2. Navigate to project
cd my-app

# 3. Install dependencies
npm install

# 4. Start building!
npm run dev

Available Templates

• vanilla
• vanilla-ts
• vue
• vue-ts
• react
• react-ts
• preact
• preact-ts
• lit
• lit-ts
• svelte
• svelte-ts
• solid
• solid-ts
• qwik
• qwik-ts

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

Community Templates

create-vite-ai 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.