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Original author(s) | Evan You |
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Initial release | 20 April 2020 |
Stable release | v5.3.3
/ 3 July 2024 |
Repository | github |
Written in | TypeScript |
Platform | Node.js, Deno, Bun |
Available in | English Docs in English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish |
Type | Development server |
License | MIT License |
Website | vitejs |
Vite (French: [vit], like "veet") is a local development server written by Evan You,[1] 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.[2]
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)[3] 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).