vue-pinia-best-practices
Improve Pinia Store Reliability
Pinia apps often fail from early store access, broken reactivity, or hidden setup-store state. This skill gives Claude, Codex, and Claude Code practical checks for safer Vue state management.
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Using "vue-pinia-best-practices". A Vue app crashes during startup with the no active Pinia message.
Expected outcome:
The review identifies a store call that runs before Pinia installation. It recommends installing Pinia before router guards and moving store access inside runtime functions.
Using "vue-pinia-best-practices". A setup store keeps auth state private by not returning it.
Expected outcome:
The review explains the SSR, DevTools, and plugin risks. It recommends returning every reactive state value and using naming conventions for internal fields.
Using "vue-pinia-best-practices". A product page loses filter selections after refresh.
Expected outcome:
The guidance separates shareable filters from private UI state. It recommends URL-backed values for search and categories, with Pinia for complex local state.
Security Audit
SafeAI review found the static findings are documentation examples, not executable skill behavior. Dynamic imports, fetch calls, Authorization headers, and Object.keys appear inside Pinia guidance snippets using local app paths; no prompt injection, credential exfiltration, or command execution intent was found.
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Fix Store Initialization Errors
Diagnose startup crashes caused by calling Pinia stores before the app installs Pinia.
Review Setup Store Design
Check whether setup stores return required state for DevTools, SSR, plugins, and persistence.
Plan Shareable Filter State
Choose when filters belong in the URL, a Pinia store, or a hybrid pattern.
Try These Prompts
Review my Vue app startup flow for the no active Pinia error. Identify store calls that run too early and suggest the correct order.
Check this component for Pinia destructuring problems. Explain which values should use storeToRefs and which actions should stay on the store.
Help me design filter state for a product list. Decide which values should live in the URL and which should stay in Pinia.
Audit this Pinia architecture for setup-store return issues, SSR risks, plugin order problems, and method binding mistakes. Prioritize production risks.
Best Practices
- Install Pinia before plugins that access stores.
- Return all reactive state, computed getters, and actions from setup stores.
- Use storeToRefs for reactive state destructuring and keep actions on the store.
Avoid
- Calling useStore at module scope before app initialization.
- Hiding setup-store state by omitting it from the return value.
- Passing store methods as bare template references when context matters.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Developer Details
Author
github.com/vuejs-aiLicense
MIT
Author version
v1.0.0
Skillstore revision
r1
Ref
36e07d5e13068e5be64447e8f20b427cf2cbd21a
Maintenance freshness
7/18/2026
Usage
17 downloads ยท 177 views
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