Setup

Create a new app

Scaffold a new Vite + React project. npm create vite@latest myfolder -- --template react, then install its dependencies.

• myfolder is whatever you want the project folder to be named.
• --template react skips Vite's interactive prompts and picks the plain React (JS) template directly.
• The create command only scaffolds files, it doesn't install anything, npm install is still a separate step.

npm create vite@latest myfolder -- --template react
cd myfolder
npm install

Use npm start instead of npm run dev

Vite's default dev script is named dev, not start. Add a start script in package.json so npm start works too.

• Open package.json, find the "scripts" block.
• Add "start": "vite" next to the existing "dev": "vite" line.
• npm run dev and npm start now do the exact same thing.

"scripts": {
  "dev": "vite",
  "start": "vite",
  "build": "vite build",
  "preview": "vite preview"
}