README.md

February 17, 2026 · View on GitHub

What if tooling was done with 1 command?

Craft CMS 5 infused with Vite, TypeScript and tailwindcss.

Lightning fast development, HMR and a production ready build process.

_{Made possible by}

_{The team behind the magic}
_{Simon Wesp} _{Thomas Bendl}

Turbostart 🚀

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/szenario-fordesigners/craft-vite-starter/main/init.sh)

Quickstart

mkdir my-project && cd my-project
ddev config --project-type=craftcms --docroot=web
ddev composer create -y szenario-fordesigners/craft-vite-starter
make install
make dev

Requirements

DDEV
Unix-based OS (MacOS, Linux, WSL2)

If you are on Windows

Use WSL2 and follow the instructions for Unix-based OS. DDEV Documentation is a great starting point.

Commands

make install - patches the DDEV craft config and installs Craft CMS. Should only be used as a first time setup.
make dev - starts the development server
make build - bundles the assets for production

Subsequent Use

ddev yarn - for managing frontend packages
ddev composer - for managing backend packages
ddev craft - exposes the Craft CLI

To use Critical CSS, you need to manually add the pages that should be pre-rendered to the criticalPages array in vite.config.ts. The pages will be pre-rendered when building and the generated CSS will be inlined in the HTML.

Credits

This repository is based on the official Craft CMS starter template.
Thanks to Andrew Welch for the great craft-vite plugin!

Contributors

_{Simon Wesp}
💻

_{Thomas Bendl}
💻

_{Esteban Castro}
💻