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Vue demi

🎩 Creates Universal Library for Vue 2 & 3

From vueuse·Updated June 7, 2026·View on GitHub·

Vue Demi (half in French) is a developing utility allows you to write Universal Vue Libraries for Vue 2 & 3 See more details in this blog post The project is written primarily in JavaScript, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2020. It has gained significant community traction with 3,129 stars and 171 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: vue, vue-composition-api, vue-demi, vue2, vue3.

Latest release: v0.14.10
July 25, 2024View Changelog →
<p align="center"> <img src="https://github.com/vueuse/vue-demi/blob/main/assets/banner.png?raw=true" width="600"/> <br> <a href='https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue-demi'><img src='https://img.shields.io/npm/v/vue-demi?color=42b883' alt='npm'></a> </p> <p align="center"> <b>Vue Demi</b> (<i>half</i> in French) is a developing utility<br> allows you to write <b>Universal Vue Libraries</b> for Vue 2 & 3<br> <i>See more details in <a href='https://antfu.me/posts/make-libraries-working-with-vue-2-and-3'>this blog post</a></i> </p> <br>

[!CAUTION]
vue-demi should not be used for new projects and will be deprecated in the future.

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Strategies

  • <=2.6: exports from vue + @vue/composition-api with plugin auto installing.
  • 2.7: exports from vue (Composition API is built-in in Vue 2.7).
  • >=3.0: exports from vue, with polyfill of Vue 2's set and del API.

Usage

Install this as your plugin's dependency:

bash
npm i vue-demi # or yarn add vue-demi # or pnpm i vue-demi

Add vue and @vue/composition-api to your plugin's peer dependencies to specify what versions you support.

jsonc
{ "dependencies": { "vue-demi": "latest" }, "peerDependencies": { "@vue/composition-api": "^1.0.0-rc.1", "vue": "^2.0.0 || >=3.0.0" }, "peerDependenciesMeta": { "@vue/composition-api": { "optional": true } }, "devDependencies": { "vue": "^3.0.0" // or "^2.6.0" base on your preferred working environment }, }

Import everything related to Vue from it, it will redirect to vue@2 + @vue/composition-api or vue@3 based on users' environments.

ts
import { ref, reactive, defineComponent } from 'vue-demi'

Publish your plugin and all is done!

When using with Vite, you will need to opt-out the pre-bundling to get vue-demi work properly by

js
// vite.config.js export default defineConfig({ optimizeDeps: { exclude: ['vue-demi'] } })

Extra APIs

Vue Demi provides extra APIs to help distinguish users' environments and to do some version-specific logic.

isVue2 isVue3

ts
import { isVue2, isVue3 } from 'vue-demi' if (isVue2) { // Vue 2 only } else { // Vue 3 only }

Vue2

To avoid bringing in all the tree-shakable modules, we provide a Vue2 export to support access to Vue 2's global API. (See #41.)

ts
import { Vue2 } from 'vue-demi' if (Vue2) { Vue2.config.ignoredElements.push('x-foo') }

install()

Composition API in Vue 2 is provided as a plugin and needs to be installed on the Vue instance before using. Normally, vue-demi will try to install it automatically. For some usages where you might need to ensure the plugin gets installed correctly, the install() API is exposed to as a safe version of Vue.use(CompositionAPI). install() in the Vue 3 environment will be an empty function (no-op).

ts
import { install } from 'vue-demi' install()

CLI

Manually Switch Versions

To explicitly switch the redirecting version, you can use these commands in your project's root.

bash
npx vue-demi-switch 2 # or npx vue-demi-switch 3

Package Aliasing

If you would like to import vue under an alias, you can use the following command

bash
npx vue-demi-switch 2 vue2 # or npx vue-demi-switch 3 vue3

Then vue-demi will redirect APIs from the alias name you specified, for example:

ts
import * as Vue from 'vue3' var isVue2 = false var isVue3 = true var Vue2 = undefined export * from 'vue3' export { Vue, Vue2, isVue2, isVue3, }

Auto Fix

If the postinstall hook doesn't get triggered or you have updated the Vue version, try to run the following command to resolve the redirecting.

bash
npx vue-demi-fix

Isomorphic Testings

You can support testing for both versions by adding npm alias in your dev dependencies. For example:

json
{ "scripts": { "test:2": "vue-demi-switch 2 vue2 && jest", "test:3": "vue-demi-switch 3 && jest", }, "devDependencies": { "vue": "^3.0.0", "vue2": "npm:vue@2" }, }

or

json
{ "scripts": { "test:2": "vue-demi-switch 2 && jest", "test:3": "vue-demi-switch 3 vue3 && jest", }, "devDependencies": { "vue": "^2.6.0", "vue3": "npm:vue@3" }, }

Examples

See examples.

Who is using this?

open a PR to add your library ;)

Underhood

See the blog post.

License

MIT License © 2020 Anthony Fu

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