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Vite

Vite is a fast frontend build tool we use behind the scenes to speed up development and produce optimised production bundles for web projects.

Where we use it

Vite offers a lightning-fast development experience with its native ESM-based dev server. For production, it provides a highly optimized build using Rollup. We use Vite to accelerate our development workflow and deliver finely-tuned applications.

Strengths

  • Extremely fast Hot Module Replacement (HMR).
  • Optimized builds for production.
  • Universal plugin system (Rollup & esbuild).

Trade-offs

  • Relatively new, so the ecosystem is smaller than Webpack's.
  • Browser support for native ES modules is required for development.
  • Some complex configurations can be tricky.

Questions

Vite uses native ES modules in the browser during development, which avoids the slow bundling process of tools like Webpack, resulting in a much faster dev server.

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