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TLDR

A library of 80+ pre-built mobile UI components for Vue apps, buttons, forms, date pickers, carousels, optimized for touch screens and small file sizes.

Mindmap

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    What it does
      80+ UI components
      Mobile-optimized
      Touch-friendly design
    Key features
      Dark mode support
      RTL languages
      30+ translations
    Tech stack
      Vue 2 and 3
      TypeScript
      Nuxt compatible
    Use cases
      E-commerce apps
      Delivery tracking
      Mobile banking
    Why use it
      1KB per component
      No dependencies
      Fast load times

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Build an e-commerce mobile storefront with product listings, shopping cart, and checkout forms.

USE CASE 2

Create a delivery tracking app with maps, status updates, and real-time notifications.

USE CASE 3

Develop a mobile banking interface with account dashboards, transaction history, and payment forms.

USE CASE 4

Design a social media feed with image carousels, comment sections, and user profiles.

Tech stack

Vue 2Vue 3TypeScriptNuxt

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
Use freely for any purpose including commercial, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

In plain English

Vant is a library of pre-built user interface components designed specifically for building mobile web applications with Vue. Vue is a popular JavaScript framework for building web interfaces; Vant gives Vue developers a head start by providing over 80 ready-made components, things like buttons, forms, dialogs, date pickers, image carousels, and navigation bars, all styled and optimized for touch screens and small phone displays. The core problem it solves is that building a polished mobile UI from scratch takes enormous time. Instead of writing a date picker or a form validation flow yourself, you import the component from Vant, drop it into your page, and customize its appearance through configuration options or CSS variables (rules that control colors, sizes, and fonts). Vant is designed to be lightweight, each component averages about 1 kilobyte when compressed, which matters on mobile connections where file size directly affects how quickly your app loads. It has no third-party dependencies, meaning it does not pull in other large packages. It supports dark mode, right-to-left layouts for Arabic and Hebrew languages, and over 30 built-in language translations. A front-end developer building a mobile web app, such as an e-commerce storefront, a delivery tracking interface, or a mobile banking app, would use Vant to build their UI quickly. It supports both Vue 2 and Vue 3, as well as Nuxt (a Vue-based server-side rendering framework). The library is written in TypeScript.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Show me how to set up Vant in a Vue 3 project and add a date picker component to a form.
Prompt 2
How do I customize Vant component colors using CSS variables for dark mode?
Prompt 3
Build a mobile product card component using Vant's image carousel and button components.
Prompt 4
How do I enable right-to-left layout and Arabic translations in a Vant app?
Prompt 5
Create a mobile checkout form with Vant form validation, input fields, and a submit button.
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