Vite (software)

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Vite
Original author(s) Evan You
Initial release20 April 2020;4 years ago (2020-04-20)
Stable release
6.1.1 [1] / 19 February 2025;1 day ago (2025-02-19)
Repository github.com/vitejs/vite
Written in TypeScript
Platform Node.js, Deno, Bun
Available in English
Docs in English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish
Type Development server
License MIT License
Website vitejs.dev OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Vite (French: [vit] , like "veet") is a local development server written by Evan You, [2] the creator of Vue.js, and used by default by Vue and for React project templates. It has support for TypeScript and JSX. It uses Rollup [ Wikidata ] and esbuild internally for bundling. [3]

Contents

It monitors files as they're being edited and upon file save the web browser reloads the code being edited through a process called Hot Module Replacement (HMR) [4] which works by just reloading the specific file being changed using ES6 modules (ESM) instead of recompiling the entire application.

Vite provides built-in support for server-side rendering (SSR). By default, it listens on TCP port 5173. It is possible to configure Vite to serve content over HTTPS and proxy requests (including WebSocket) to a back-end web server (such as Apache HTTP Server or lighttpd).

Features and performance

Vite has a Hot Module Replacement (HMR) system, which reduces wait times during development. Vite supports frameworks such as React, Vue, and Svelte, and has server-side rendering (SSR), code-splitting, and asynchronous loading.

Vite's production build times are fast compared to traditional build tools, clocking in at 3.37 seconds versus Webpack's 10.82 seconds and Parcel's 9.01 seconds. Vite is framework-agnostic and integrates seamlessly with tools such as Vitest for testing, Astro for content-driven sites, and Slidev for presentations. [5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "6.1.1 (2025-02-19)". GitHub.
  2. ↑ "Introducing Vite JS - Next-Gen Frontend Tooling". Radixweb. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "Why Vite". vite.dev.
  4. ↑ "Educative Answers - Trusted Answers to Developer Questions". Educative. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  5. ↑ "Understanding Vite and Bun.js: A Detailed Developer's Review". Valletta Software Blog. July 27, 2024. Retrieved August 28, 2024.


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