Vite just got too big to ignore…

Vite has surpassed 150 million weekly downloads and become the dominant build tool for modern front-end development. Unlike Webpack's slow bundling approach, Vite leverages native ES modules to serve source files directly during development, resulting in instant server startup and near-instant hot module replacement. Its lean core philosophy delegates features to plugins while using fast native tools like esbuild and SWC for performance. The tool supports code splitting, dynamic imports, and server-side rendering out of the box, with production builds optimized through Rollup for minimal bundle sizes and efficient caching.