Vite (software)

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Vite
Original author Evan You
Developer VoidZero Inc
Initial release20 April 2020;5 years ago (2020-04-20)
Stable release
7.3.0 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 15 December 2025;15 days ago (15 December 2025)
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 vite.dev OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

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

Contents

Vite monitors files as they are 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. [5] 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.

Viteconf

Viteconf is an event that hosts talks about frontend tooling. [6] The conventions in 2022, [7] [6] 2023, [8] and 2024, [9] were held online. In October 2025, the first in-person Viteconf was held in Amsterdam. [10] [11]

See also

References

  1. "Release 7.3.0". 15 December 2025. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
  2. "Announcing VoidZero - Next Generation Toolchain for JavaScript". void(0). Retrieved 2025-06-15.
  3. "Why Vite". vite.dev.
  4. "Educative Answers - Trusted Answers to Developer Questions". Educative. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  5. 5 (Roman numeral ) + 1 (Roman numeral ) + 7 (Leet for T) + 3 (Leet for E)
  6. 1 2 East, David (30 Aug 2022). "Come join us at ViteConf 2022!". The Firebase Blog. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  7. "ViteConf is back!". blog.stackblitz.com. 10 August 2023. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  8. "Astro @ ViteConf 2023". Astro. 2 October 2023. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  9. "ViteConf 2024 was a blast". blog.stackblitz.com. 22 October 2024. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  10. "ViteConf". viteconf.amsterdam. Retrieved 2025-12-29.
  11. "Big Announcement: The First In-Person ViteConf 2025 in Amsterdam! - Vue School Articles - Vue School". vueschool.io. Retrieved 24 September 2025.