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posva/vite-tailwind-starter
Starter using Vite + Tailwind for super fast prototyping
A minimal Vue 3 + Vite + Tailwind CSS starter template from the Pinia author. It sets up the baseline tooling so you can skip the configuration ceremony and get to building. Aimed at people who want a local prototype running in under a minute.
Vite's dev server makes HMR essentially instant, which is the main reason to reach for this over CRA-era starters. The file count is admirably low — no hidden abstractions or opinionated folder conventions forced on you. Vue Router is wired in already with a 404 route, which is the first thing every project needs anyway. Tailwind UI integration instructions are included as explicit steps rather than buried in a wiki.
This hasn't meaningfully changed in years — `circle.yml` for CI and `netlify.toml` for deployment suggest it was last actively maintained when those were the defaults, and there's no TypeScript support out of the box despite Vue 3's strong TS story. The package.json likely pins old versions of Tailwind (v3 era), and Tailwind v4 changed the config format entirely, so adopters will hit friction immediately on upgrade. With 459 stars and posva's name on it you'd expect a maintained companion to Vite's own scaffolding, but there's been no effort to align with `create-vue` or `@vitejs/create-app`, so you're starting from a slightly stale base. No testing setup at all, not even a placeholder.