Install Vue CLI 4 and Create a New Vue 3 Project

10xTeam • August 28, 2020 • 2 min read •

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to install Vue CLI 4 and create a Vue 3 project.

Vue CLI 4 comes with both Vue 2 and Vue 3 support.

Step 1 - Installing Vue CLI 4

Let’s start by installing Vue CLI 4 in our local development machine.

Open a command line interface and run the following command:

$ npm i -g vue-cli

After installing the CLI. If you run the vue --version command, you should get the following output:

@vue/cli 4.5.2

Step 2 - Creating a New Vue 3 Project

Now if you have Vue CLI 4 installed, you can create a Vue 3 project using the following command:

$ vue create vue3demo

You’ll be prompted with the following code:

? Please pick a preset: 
  Default ([Vue 2] babel, eslint) 
❯ Default (Vue 3 Preview) ([Vue 3] babel, eslint) 
  Manually select features 

Next, you need to select the second option Default (Vue 3 Preview) ([Vue 3] babel, eslint) to instruct the CLI to generate a new Vue 3 based project.

Next, press Return.

Your project’s files will be generated and the dependencies will be automatically installed from npm.

Step 3 - Serving your Vue 3 Project

Next, navigate to your project’s folder and run the development server as follows:

$ cd vue3demo
$ npm run serve

You’ll be able to see the following interface if you go to http://localhost:8080/ with your web browser:

Vue.js splash page

This is the directory structure of our project:

.
├── babel.config.js
├── node_modules
├── package.json
├── package-lock.json
├── public
├── README.md
└── src

The src/ folder contains the following files:

├── App.vue
├── assets
│   └── logo.png
├── components
│   └── HelloWorld.vue
└── main.js

Conclusion

In this quick post we’ve seen how to generate a new Vue 3 project using Vue CLI v4.