Install

npm install element-plus --save

full import

The package is very bulky, suitable for learning, not suitable for production.

This method is applicable to vue3 created by vite and cli scaffolding

// main.ts
import { createApp } from 'vue'
//引入element-plus
import ElementPlus from 'element-plus'
//引入element-plus相关样式
import 'element-plus/dist/index.css'
import App from './App.vue'

const app = createApp(App)
//挂载
app.use(ElementPlus)
app.mount('#app')

import on demand

Additional plugins are required to import the components to be used.

import automatically

First, you need to install the two plug-ins unplugin-vue-components and unplugin-auto-import

npm install -D unplugin-vue-components unplugin-auto-import

In the Vite project

// vite.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
import AutoImport from 'unplugin-auto-import/vite'
import Components from 'unplugin-vue-components/vite'
import { ElementPlusResolver } from 'unplugin-vue-components/resolvers'

export default defineConfig({
  // ...
  plugins: [
    // ...
    AutoImport({
      resolvers: [ElementPlusResolver()],
    }),
    Components({
      resolvers: [ElementPlusResolver()],
    }),
  ],
})

In the cli project (project based on webapck)

// vue.config.js
const AutoImport = require('unplugin-auto-import/webpack')
const Components = require('unplugin-vue-components/webpack')
const { ElementPlusResolver } = require('unplugin-vue-components/resolvers')

module.exports = {
    configureWebpack: {
        plugins: [
            AutoImport({
              resolvers: [ElementPlusResolver()],
            }),
            Components({
              resolvers: [ElementPlusResolver()],
            }),
          ],
    }
}

import manually

Element Plus provides out-of-the-box Tree Shaking based on ES Module .

But you need to install unplugin-element-plus to import styles. Please refer to the documentation on how to configure it.

<template>
  <el-button>I am ElButton</el-button>
</template>
<script>
  import { ElButton } from 'element-plus'
  export default {
    components: { ElButton },
  }
</script>

// vite.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
import ElementPlus from 'unplugin-element-plus/vite'

export default defineConfig({
  // ...
  plugins: [ElementPlus()],
})

Introduce Element-plus in Vue3