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Vite.js or How i became the fastest programmer alive.
Created by Evan You (also the creator of Vue.js), Vite is a build tool that significantly improves the front-end development experience. You can use Vite to set up a development environment for frameworks like Vue and React, and even for a vanilla JavaScript app with a dev server and hot reloading in just three commands.
FYI: Vite is a french word that means "fast".
Bundlers (like webpack, Parcel, snowpack, etc.) improved the development efficiency to a great extent. However, as we moved to more ambitious applications, it increased the complexity of the project along with the code volume and number of modules.
The problem is with this huge code volume it will start impacting the performance level. In another words, it will take an unreasonably long time to run and as Benjamin Franklin said once: "Remember that time is money."
Vite is really fast, because it leverages native ES modules and doesn’t need to rebuild the whole bundle when something changes. This makes it fast, regardless of the size of your application.
Now, let’s take Vite for a spin and see how we go. It will be interesting to see how much of our normal workflow would be better handled with Vite.
Vite is pretty cool! It’s a fine addition to the recent trend of tools that simplifies tooling like Parcel and Snowpack. That's why you should give it a try.
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