What does vue-cli-plugin-vuetify do?

I have a project using Vuetify, my project is not bootstrapped by vue-cli

After using Vuetify for months(in production), I've found out that I didn't install vue-cli-plugin-vuetify!

What does this plugin actually do?

1. As many CLI plugins it contains generator to scaffold new Vuetify App - you can get overview what it does by looking at the set of questions it asks when executed

2. Second part is runtime (which for CLI plugin means when serve or build is executed) to extend Webpack config

• activating VuetifyLoaderPlugin responsible for treeshaking
• modifying vue-loader's transformAssetUrls config
• bootstrap SASS variables

Most of the things can be done manually (look for Webpack install(ation) on pages linked above), CLI plugin just make it easier for user (and that's the point of Vue CLI in general)