Vite is a build tool that aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects.
The reason behind the creation of Vite lies in addressing the limitations and bottlenecks that developers often encounter in traditional development environments. The team behind Vite aimed to provide an alternative that combines superior performance with a quick development startup. By embracing the ECMAScript module standard and optimizing dependency loading, Vite delivers an efficient development experience, reducing startup time and enhancing productivity.
What does ‘Vite’ mean?
Vite, which means “fast” in French, was created with the goal of providing an agile and efficient development experience for web developers.
Who is the creator?
Vite was created by Evan You (@youyuxi) and used by default in Vue.js, and a good tool for creating app templates in React
Benefits
- The classic way to create React Apps is deprecated, this was announced at the beginning of 2023. The CLI is not supported anymore and the official team recommended using alternatives, among that Vite.
- Vite is built on esbuild (a JavaScript package written in Go), which bundles dependencies 10 to 100 times faster than JavaScript-based packages.
- Has an active community, developers benefit from a growing ecosystem and a wealth of tools, libraries, plugins, etc., to enhance the development experience.
- Vite allows absolute imports, making managing and organizing the code base easier.
- Vite generates highly optimized production builds, ensuring the application is as fast and efficient as possible when deployed.
- Vite supports server-side rendering out of the box. This is essential for improving the application’s initial page load performance and search engine optimization (SEO).
- What means or why use server-side rendering (SSR)?
- It improves SEO, accelerates initial loading, enhances device efficiency, ensures accessibility, and optimizes social media, resulting in better web performance and user experience. The server creates the page, and the user sees them.
- What means or why use server-side rendering (SSR)?
- Vite has support for various frameworks, so this is helpful if you want to migrate your React app or specific modules to Vue or Svelte, for example.
- If you are a purist and love working with strong types, Vite has excellent support for TypeScript, providing developers with static typing that helps catch errors early in the development process.
- Vite implements lazy loading of modules, which allows for faster initial load times for the users, as the code for non-critical parts of the application is only loaded when required.
- Vite has a CSS preprocessor support for Sass, Less, and Stylus, as well as PostCSS and CSS modules.
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In terms of popularity and usability, in the last poll about JS realized in 2022 (state of JS), we can see that Vite is the most popular and great reception build tool to create apps.
If this interests you, you can dive into the Vite installation and use the features from the official documentation. Also, you can verify the latest version in their blog to use the latest features and improvements provided by the Vite team.
Finally, we invite you to learn more projects successfully migrated to Vite by our development team: START-Campus.