Build Your Own Framework

This documentation is work-in-progress. Reach out to the vite-plugin-ssr maintainer if you're interested in this.

With vite-plugin-ssr, you can create your own Next.js / Nuxt with only hundreds of lines of code.

Vite-plugin-ssr frameworks use the same interface as regular vite-plugin-ssr apps: the only difference is that some page files (e.g. /renderer/_default.page.server.js) live in app/node_modules/framework/ instead of app/.

Your framework can include more functionality beyond vite-plugin-ssr, such as a custom server, a CLI, deployment, etc.

Basic framework

A basic vite-plugin-ssr framework provides a renderer so that the user doesn't have to implement it:

# Renderer implemented by the framework
node_modules/framework/renderer/_default.page.server.js
node_modules/framework/renderer/_default.page.client.js

# User page files
pages/index.page.js
pages/about.page.js

In other words, the framework takes care of the UI framework integration (React, Vue, ...) so that all the framework's users have left to do is to define UI components and /pages/**/*.page.js files.

Progressively build your framework. We recommend to build your framework progressively by first implementing a normal vite-plugin-ssr app without building any framework. Once you're satisfied with the architecture of your vite-plugin-ssr app, you can start creating your own framework by moving renderer/ from my-app/renderer/ to my-app/node_modules/my-own-framework/renderer/.

Work-in-progress: this page will include examples of basic vite-plugin-ssr frameworks.

All-included framework

Essentially, a vite-plugin-ssr framework is a framework that includes page files (.page.js, .page.server.js, .page.client.js, and/or .page.route.js). Beyond that, there is nothing special about a vite-plugin-ssr framework and you can include anything you want to your framework, such as a custom server (e.g. Express.js), a database and ORM (e.g. SQLite + Prisma), deployment (e.g. Cloudflare Workers), error tracking (e.g. Sentry), a CLI, etc.

You can implement an all-included framework so that all your framework's users have left to do is: define UI components, and define data models (if your framework has a database).

Work-in-progress: this page will include examples of such frameworks.

More tools

See Vike > Getting Started for more tools to build your own framework.