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.
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| Original author(s) | Evan You |
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| Initial release | 20 April 2020 |
| Stable release | 4.4.1
/ 6 July 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).