Vite (software)

Vite
Original author(s)	Evan You
Initial release	20 April 2020; 5 years ago
Stable release	6.3.4 / 30 April 2025; 2 days ago
Repository	github.com/vitejs/vite
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.dev

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 [Wikidata] and esbuild internally for bundling.^[2]

Vite monitors files as they are 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.

Features and performance

Vite has a Hot Module Replacement (HMR) system, which reduces wait times during development. Vite supports frameworks such as React, Vue, and Svelte, and has server-side rendering (SSR), code-splitting, and asynchronous loading.