---
layout: docs
title: Bootstrap and Vite
description: The official guide for how to include and bundle Bootstrap's CSS and JavaScript in your project using Vite.
group: getting-started
toc: true
thumbnail: guides/bootstrap-vite@2x.png
---
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**Want to skip to the end?** Download the source code and working demo for this guide from the [twbs/examples repository](https://github.com/twbs/examples/tree/main/vite). You can also [open the example in StackBlitz](https://stackblitz.com/github/twbs/examples/tree/main/vite?file=index.html) for live editing.
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## Setup
We're building a Vite project with Bootstrap from scratch, so there are some prerequisites and up front steps before we can really get started. This guide requires you to have Node.js installed and some familiarity with the terminal.
1. **Create a project folder and setup npm.** We'll create the `my-project` folder and initialize npm with the `-y` argument to avoid it asking us all the interactive questions.
```sh
mkdir my-project && cd my-project
npm init -y
```
2. **Install Vite.** Unlike our Webpack guide, there’s only a single build tool dependency here. We use `--save-dev` to signal that this dependency is only for development use and not for production.
```sh
npm i --save-dev vite
```
3. **Install Bootstrap.** Now we can install Bootstrap. We'll also install Popper since our dropdowns, popovers, and tooltips depend on it for their positioning. If you don't plan on using those components, you can omit Popper here.
```sh
npm i --save bootstrap @popperjs/core
```
4. **Install additional dependency.** In addition to Vite and Bootstrap, we need another dependency (Sass) to properly import and bundle Bootstrap's CSS.
```sh
npm i --save-dev sass
```
Now that we have all the necessary dependencies installed and setup, we can get to work creating the project files and importing Bootstrap.
## Project structure
We've already created the `my-project` folder and initialized npm. Now we'll also create our `src` folder, stylesheet, and JavaScript file to round out the project structure. Run the following from `my-project`, or manually create the folder and file structure shown below.
```sh
mkdir {src,src/js,src/scss}
touch src/index.html src/js/main.js src/scss/styles.scss vite.config.js
```
When you're done, your complete project should look like this:
```text
my-project/
├── src/
│ ├── js/
│ │ └── main.js
│ └── scss/
│ | └── styles.scss
| └── index.html
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
└── vite.config.js
```
At this point, everything is in the right place, but Vite won't work because we haven't filled in our `vite.config.js` yet.
## Configure Vite
With dependencies installed and our project folder ready for us to start coding, we can now configure Vite and run our project locally.
1. **Open `vite.config.js` in your editor.** Since it's blank, we'll need to add some boilerplate config to it so we can start our server. This part of the config tells Vite where to look for our project's JavaScript and how the development server should behave (pulling from the `src` folder with hot reload).
```js
const path = require('path')
export default {
root: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src'),
build: {
outDir: '../dist'
},
server: {
port: 8080
}
}
```
2. **Next we fill in `src/index.html`.** This is the HTML page Vite will load in the browser to utilize the bundled CSS and JS we'll add to it in later steps.
```html
Bootstrap w/ Vite
Hello, Bootstrap and Vite!
```
We're including a little bit of Bootstrap styling here with the `div class="container"` and `
{{< callout >}}
**Want to skip to the end?** Download the source code and working demo for this guide from the [twbs/examples repository](https://github.com/twbs/examples/tree/main/vite). You can also [open the example in StackBlitz](https://stackblitz.com/github/twbs/examples/tree/main/vite?file=index.html) for live editing.
{{< /callout >}}
## Setup
We're building a Vite project with Bootstrap from scratch, so there are some prerequisites and up front steps before we can really get started. This guide requires you to have Node.js installed and some familiarity with the terminal.
1. **Create a project folder and setup npm.** We'll create the `my-project` folder and initialize npm with the `-y` argument to avoid it asking us all the interactive questions.
```sh
mkdir my-project && cd my-project
npm init -y
```
2. **Install Vite.** Unlike our Webpack guide, there’s only a single build tool dependency here. We use `--save-dev` to signal that this dependency is only for development use and not for production.
```sh
npm i --save-dev vite
```
3. **Install Bootstrap.** Now we can install Bootstrap. We'll also install Popper since our dropdowns, popovers, and tooltips depend on it for their positioning. If you don't plan on using those components, you can omit Popper here.
```sh
npm i --save bootstrap @popperjs/core
```
4. **Install additional dependency.** In addition to Vite and Bootstrap, we need another dependency (Sass) to properly import and bundle Bootstrap's CSS.
```sh
npm i --save-dev sass
```
Now that we have all the necessary dependencies installed and setup, we can get to work creating the project files and importing Bootstrap.
## Project structure
We've already created the `my-project` folder and initialized npm. Now we'll also create our `src` folder, stylesheet, and JavaScript file to round out the project structure. Run the following from `my-project`, or manually create the folder and file structure shown below.
```sh
mkdir {src,src/js,src/scss}
touch src/index.html src/js/main.js src/scss/styles.scss vite.config.js
```
When you're done, your complete project should look like this:
```text
my-project/
├── src/
│ ├── js/
│ │ └── main.js
│ └── scss/
│ | └── styles.scss
| └── index.html
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
└── vite.config.js
```
At this point, everything is in the right place, but Vite won't work because we haven't filled in our `vite.config.js` yet.
## Configure Vite
With dependencies installed and our project folder ready for us to start coding, we can now configure Vite and run our project locally.
1. **Open `vite.config.js` in your editor.** Since it's blank, we'll need to add some boilerplate config to it so we can start our server. This part of the config tells Vite where to look for our project's JavaScript and how the development server should behave (pulling from the `src` folder with hot reload).
```js
const path = require('path')
export default {
root: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src'),
build: {
outDir: '../dist'
},
server: {
port: 8080
}
}
```
2. **Next we fill in `src/index.html`.** This is the HTML page Vite will load in the browser to utilize the bundled CSS and JS we'll add to it in later steps.
```html