vite

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.

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