# addViteApp

- Module: [Aspire.Hosting.JavaScript](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting.javascript.md)
- Version: `13.4.0`
- Kind: `method`
- Source: [GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/aspire)

Adds a Vite app to the distributed application builder.

## Definition

```typescript
interface IDistributedApplicationBuilder {
  // ... omitted for brevity
  addViteApp(
    name: string,
    appDirectory: string,
    runScriptName?: string): ViteAppResource
}
```

## Parameters

- `name` (`string`)
- `appDirectory` (`string`)
- `runScriptName` (`string`) `optional` `= dev`

## Returns

[ViteAppResource](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting.javascript/viteappresource.md) `builder`

## Applies to

- [IDistributedApplicationBuilder](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting.javascript/idistributedapplicationbuilder.md)