vitejs

vite

Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

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EDITOR'S TAKE

The build tool that won. ~71k stars. Dev server is instant, build is fast, plugin ecosystem is rich. Default for most non-Next.js React/Vue/Svelte projects in 2026.

Use this if

You are building anything that does not need Next.js-specific features.

Skip if

You are on Next.js — its build tooling is included.