Vite (French: [vit], like "veet") is a local development server written by Evan You,[1] 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 and esbuild internally for bundling.[2]

Vite
Original author(s)Evan You
Initial release20 April 2020; 4 years ago (2020-04-20)
Stable release
v5.2.7 / 29 March 2024; 31 days ago (2024-03-29)
Repositorygithub.com/vitejs/vite
Written inTypeScript
PlatformNode.js, Deno, Bun
Available inEnglish
Docs in English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish
TypeDevelopment server
LicenseMIT License
Websitevitejs.dev

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)[3] 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).

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  1. ^ "Introducing Vite JS - Next-Gen Frontend Tooling". Radixweb. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Why Vite". vitejs.dev.
  3. ^ "Educative Answers - Trusted Answers to Developer Questions". Educative. Retrieved 10 November 2023.

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