Upgrading Vite+

Use vp upgrade to update the global vp binary, and use Vite+'s package management commands to update the local vite-plus package in a project.

Overview

There are two parts to upgrading Vite+:

• The global vp command installed on your machine
• The local vite-plus package used by an individual project

You can upgrade both of them independently.

Global vp

vp upgrade                        # upgrade to the latest version
vp upgrade --check                # check for updates without installing
vp upgrade <version>              # install a specific version
vp upgrade --registry <registry>  # use a custom npm registry

Rollback

Vite+ keeps the 3 most recent versions installed so you can revert quickly:

vp upgrade --rollback

Older versions are pruned automatically after each upgrade. The active version and the previous version are always kept, so a rollback target is never removed.

Local vite-plus

The recommended way to upgrade an existing Vite+ project is vp migrate:

vp migrate

On a project that is already on Vite+, migrate does a toolchain version upgrade only: it re-pins vite-plus, the vite -> @voidzero-dev/vite-plus-core alias, and the vitest pin to the versions the global vp now bundles, across every workspace package. It skips the first-time setup steps (git hooks, editor and agent files, lint migration), so a version bump does not re-touch things you already configured. Pass --full to also run that setup.

Updating the Vitest Pin

If you migrated with vp migrate, your project pins vitest to an exact version so the whole project shares a single Vitest copy with the bundled vp test runner. The pin lives in your package manager's override block:

• npm / Bun: a vitest entry under overrides in package.json
• Yarn: a vitest entry under resolutions in package.json
• pnpm: a vitest entry under overrides in pnpm-workspace.yaml — unless your package.json already had a pnpm field, in which case it lives under pnpm.overrides in package.json instead (pnpm ignores pnpm-workspace.yaml overrides when package.json defines pnpm.overrides)

A Vite+ release can bump the bundled Vitest. Because that pin also applies to vite-plus's own vitest dependency, an out-of-date pin keeps installing the previous runner even after you upgrade vite-plus — splitting Vitest's internals (mocks, expect, runner state) between the pinned copy and the one vp test loads.

After upgrading vite-plus, re-pin vitest to the version Vite+ now bundles. Check that version with:

vp --version

Then set the vitest override to that exact version, or rerun vp migrate to update the pin for you.

Preview Builds

Some Vite+ pull requests publish temporary packages for testing before an npm release. Treat these as nightly or bleeding-edge builds: they are useful when you want to verify a specific fix, test a fresh upstream dependency bump, or confirm a change before the next release. For day-to-day work, prefer the published latest release.

Each commit on an eligible pull request is published to pkg.pr.new and registered with the registry bridge. The bridge serves these builds as ordinary npm versions of the form 0.0.0-commit.<sha> and proxies every other package to the npm registry. That means you install a preview with normal version specs instead of mutable URLs, and the same versions resolve in CI.

Both vite-plus and @voidzero-dev/vite-plus-core publish under the same 0.0.0-commit.<sha> version. Each pull request carries a comment listing the exact version for its latest commit, along with ready-to-copy install steps.

You can find preview builds in pull requests that automatically update upstream dependencies. For examples, search the merged pull requests for upstream dependency updates.

Preview builds are addressed by pull request number or commit SHA. They are not a stable version range, and you should avoid leaving them in long-lived branches unless a maintainer asks you to.

Global vp Preview

Install a preview build of the global CLI by passing VP_PR_VERSION to the installer. Pass a pull request number or a commit SHA:

curl -fsSL https://vite.plus | VP_PR_VERSION=<pr-or-sha> bash

On Windows:

$env:VP_PR_VERSION = "<pr-or-sha>"
irm https://vite.plus/ps1 | iex
Remove-Item Env:\VP_PR_VERSION

The installer resolves the ref to its 0.0.0-commit.<sha> build through the registry bridge and installs it like any other version. Run vp --version afterward to confirm which build and bundled tool versions are active. When you are done testing, return to the published release with vp upgrade --force or by running the installer again without VP_PR_VERSION.

Local vite-plus Preview

After installing the preview global CLI above, run migrate in the project to move its local vite-plus onto the same build:

vp migrate

Migrate points the project at the bridge registry (writing it to .npmrc, or .yarnrc.yml for Yarn Berry) and pins vite-plus and the vite -> @voidzero-dev/vite-plus-core alias to the matching 0.0.0-commit.<sha> version. That registry line is what lets the same versions resolve in the project's own CI, so commit it if you want CI to test the preview too.

After installing, check the bundled versions with vp --version. When testing is complete, restore the published release: set vite-plus back to latest, remove the bridge registry line from .npmrc (or .yarnrc.yml), and reinstall with vp install.