Development FAQ ​

Here are the problems that are easy to encounter in development.

If you encounter dependency related issues ​

rm -rf node_modules
pnpm i

Link local dependencies ​

# get dist
pnpm build
cd dist/element-plus
# set cur element-plus to global `node_modules`
pnpm link --global
# for esm we also need link element-plus for dist
pnpm link --global element-plus

# go to your project, link to `element-plus`
cd your-project
pnpm link --global element-plus

More info see pnpm link.

Theme ​

We should not write Chinese comments in scss files.

It will generate warning @charset "UTF-8"; in the header of css file when built with vite.

More info see #3219.