Provide a vue-cli-plugin to write vue plugin out of box

[zhangbobell]

What problem does this feature solve?

Vue-cli 3.x is really a big progress for start a vue program instantly, but today when I want to write a vue plugin, things seems still tough. Since vue plugin is not the same with vue program, I need to config webpack, postcss, etc. The documents in vuejs.org says that how to write a plugin, but there was no docs about how to config when I am writing plugin.

I've find a vue-cli 2.0 template for this purpose: https://github.com/posva/vue-plugin-template . In Vue-cli 3.x, It seems we can provide a vue-cli-plugin to solve this problem. Could anyone give me some advice? Thank you very much!

What does the proposed API look like?

Provide a vue-cli-plugin, we could select it in the prompt when we use vue create awesome-plugin.

[LinusBorg]

vue-cli 3 gives you all of the basic tools to compile a plugin as a lib, see here:

https://cli.vuejs.org/guide/build-targets.html#library

For additional boilerplate / preconfiguration, a plugin from the community can be provided - especially using rollup to compile the plugin, like the template that you linked to does, is out of scope of vue-cli itself - we focus on webpack.

[zhangbobell]

I also find out that vue-cli build-target could do that, thank you for your patiently answer.