Vite: Next Generation Front End Tooling
Vite is a modern build tool designed to enhance the frontend development experience with speed and efficiency. It features a fast development server with instant Hot Module Replacement and a build command optimized for production. The tool is extensible through a plugin and JavaScript API, both with full typing support.
- ▪Vite is a build tool aimed at providing a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects.
- ▪It includes a dev server with fast Hot Module Replacement and a build command that uses Rolldown for optimized static assets.
- ▪Vite is extensible via a Plugin API and JavaScript API, both offering full typing support.
- ▪The name 'Vite' comes from the French word for 'quick' and is pronounced 'veet'.
- ▪It is released under the MIT license and has extensive documentation available.
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Vite ⚡ Next Generation Frontend Tooling 💡 Instant Server Start ⚡️ Lightning Fast HMR 🛠️ Rich Features 📦 Optimized Build 🔩 Universal Plugin Interface 🔑 Fully Typed APIs Vite (French word for "quick", pronounced /viːt/, like "veet") is a build tool that aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects. It consists of two major parts: A dev server that provides rich feature enhancements over native ES modules, for example extremely fast Hot Module Replacement (HMR). A build command that bundles your code with Rolldown, pre-configured to output highly optimized static assets for production. In addition, Vite is highly extensible via its Plugin API and JavaScript API with full typing support. Read the Docs to Learn More.
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