--- title: Development FAQ lang: en-US --- # Development FAQ Here are the problems that are easy to encounter in development. ## If you encounter dependency related issues ```shell rm -rf node_modules pnpm i ``` ## Link local dependencies ```shell # 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](https://pnpm.io/cli/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](https://github.com/element-plus/element-plus/issues/3219).