Vite (software)
Vite (French: [vit], like "veet") is a local development server written by Evan You, 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.
| Original author(s) | Evan You |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 20 April 2020 |
| Stable release | 5.0.2
/ 21 November 2023 |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | TypeScript |
| Platform | Node.js, Deno |
| Available in | English Docs in English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish |
| Type | Development server |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | vitejs |
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) 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).