A minimal, working template for Inertia + Django + Vite + Vue.

1. Inertia - powered by the official Inertia.js Django Adapter
2. Django v4.2
3. Vite 5 - powered by Django Vite
4. Vue 3
5. TypeScript
6. WhiteNoise - to serve static files

1. Download the repo. You can either:

   a. Clone the repo (without the git history):

   npx degit https://github.com/mujahidfa/inertia-django-vite-vue-minimal

   b. Or, create a repo based on this template via the GitHub template generator.

2. Install required Python packages.

   # Create and activate a virtual environment
   python3 -m venv .venv
   source .venv/bin/activate
   
   # Install required Python packages
   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Install required Node.js packages.

   npm install

4. Run the Vite dev server:

   npm run dev

5. Run Django's default migrations:

   python manage.py migrate

6. Run the Django dev server (in a separate terminal):

   python manage.py runserver

1. Set DEBUG=False in settings.py.

   # In settings.py
   ...
   DEBUG=False
   ...

2. Build the JS/assets for production:

   npm run build

3. Run collectstatic:

   rm -rf staticfiles/
   python manage.py collectstatic

4. Run the Django server:

   python manage.py runserver