element-plus/docs/en-US/guide/dev-faq.md

Development FAQ

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

If you encounter dependency related issues

rm -fr 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.