Plugin ecosystem

Ness 7 plugins use Vite hooks and are composed through ness({ plugins }). Official integrations are ESM-only, typed, and tested on Node 20.19+.

Package	Purpose
`@nessframework/nest`	NestJS controllers, DI, guards, and server modules
`@nessframework/tailwind`	Tailwind CSS 4 and production CSS optimization
`@nessframework/security`	Secure headers for Vite development and preview
`@nessframework/env`	Required variables, formats, choices, and validators
`@nessframework/compression`	Precompressed Gzip and Brotli production assets
`@nessframework/analyzer`	JSON/HTML bundle reports and enforceable size budgets

Install an official plugin by its short name:

ness add tailwind --dev
ness add security --dev
ness add nest

The CLI expands these aliases to packages such as @nessframework/tailwind, @nessframework/security, and @nessframework/nest.

Compose plugins

ness.config.mjs
import analyzer from '@nessframework/analyzer';
import compression from '@nessframework/compression';
import { defineNessConfig } from '@nessframework/router';
import env from '@nessframework/env';
import nest from '@nessframework/nest';
import { ness } from '@nessframework/router/vite';
import security from '@nessframework/security';

export default defineNessConfig({
  vite: {
    plugins: [
      ness({
        plugins: [
          nest(),
          env({ schema: { DATABASE_URL: true } }),
          security(),
          compression(),
          analyzer({ maxSize: 750_000 }),
        ],
      }),
    ],
  },
});

Open an individual plugin page for installation, options, and output details. To create a reusable integration, see Create a plugin.

Compose plugins​

Compose plugins