Vite

Vite is a next-generation frontend build tool created by Evan You, the creator of Vue.js, providing an extremely fast development experience. It serves source code over native ES modules during development, meaning the browser loads only the modules it needs rather than bundling the entire application on every change. The dev server starts in milliseconds regardless of application size.

Hot module replacement uses esbuild for TypeScript and JSX transformation, making updates appear in the browser almost instantly after saving a file. For production builds, Vite uses Rollup to produce optimized bundles with tree-shaking, code splitting, and asset optimization. Despite being created by the Vue team, Vite is framework-agnostic and supports React, Svelte, Solid, and vanilla JavaScript through official and community templates. It has become the default development tool for Vue and is increasingly adopted across the JavaScript ecosystem as a faster alternative to Webpack-based setups.