# Vite Next Generation Frontend Tooling This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## Vite 8.1 is out! DevFeed: [Vite 8.1 is out!]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: The Vite Team Published: 2026-06-23T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Vite]() Topics: [Vite](), [Development](), [React]() Tags: [2026](), [announce](), [browser](), [linear](), [performance](), [release](), [vite]() ### AI overview Vite 8.1 has been released with experimental bundled dev mode, which is intended to improve development performance for large applications. Initial testing reported faster startup and full-page reloads than the unbundled dev server. ### Source excerpt Vite 8.1 is out! June 23, 2026 Vite 8 was released in March with a single unified bundler powered by Rolldown, opening the door to further improvements. It is now seeing 41.6 million weekly downloads, almost reaching the total downloads of Vite 7. Alongside resolving upgrade regressions, we've been working on new features, and we're excited to announce the release of Vite 8.1. Quick links: Docs Translations: 简体中文, 日本語, Español, Português, 한국어, Deutsch, فارسی GitHub Changelog Play online with Vite 8.1 using vite.new or scaffold a Vite app locally with your preferred framework running pnpm create vite. Check out the Getting Started Guide for more information. We invite you to help us improve Vite (joining the more than 1.2K contributors to Vite Core), our dependencies, or plugins and projects in the ecosystem. Learn more at our Contributing Guide. A good way to get started is by triaging issues, reviewing PRs, sending tests PRs based on open issues, and supporting others in Discussions or Vite Land's help forum. If you have questions, join our Discord community and talk to us in the #contributing channel. Stay updated and connect with others building on top of Vite by following us on Bluesky, X, or Mastodon. Features Experimental Bundled Dev Mode Experimental support for bundled dev mode is now available. This was previously called as "Full Bundle Mode". This mode is to improve performance of huge applications that suffer from the number of modules. In our initial testing with an app loading 10,000 React components, bundled dev mode achieved around 15x faster startup and 10x faster full page reloads compared to the unbundled dev server, while keeping HMR instant regardless of the application size. Early testing on real-world applications shows similar gains: the Linear team saw cold start rendering up to 3x faster, full reloads around 40% faster, and 10x fewer network requests. Why bundled dev mode? Vite is known for its unbundled dev server approach, which is a ## Cloudflare supports Vite's mission DevFeed: [Cloudflare supports Vite's mission]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: The Vite Team Published: 2026-06-04T00:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Vite]() Topics: [Vite](), [Cloudflare](), [Open Source](), [Web platform]() Tags: [announcement](), [blog](), [cloudflare](), [github](), [open-source]() ### AI overview Cloudflare is investing in Vite after VoidZero joins the company, while Vite remains open source, vendor-agnostic, and governed by the Vite team. Cloudflare also announced a $1 million fund for the Vite ecosystem to support maintainers, tooling, ecosystem projects, web platform work, and security improvements. ### Source excerpt Cloudflare supports Vite's mission June 4, 2026 Today marks the start of a new stage for Vite. VoidZero is joining Cloudflare. You can read the full story from Evan You in VoidZero's announcement. In Cloudflare's blog post, they explain why they are investing in the Vite stack, which has now become part of the web's foundational infrastructure. Vite's team governance, mission, and philosophy aren't changing: Vite remains open source under the MIT license. Vite remains vendor-agnostic, applications built with vite are meant to run anywhere. Vite continues to be stewarded by the Vite team, which includes members employed by different organizations and independent members. Vite's Open Collective funds are managed by the Vite team and are used to fund independent core team members, dependencies, and other key projects in the ecosystem. The Vite team members employed by VoidZero are all joining Cloudflare and will continue to work on Vite. As stated in the VoidZero and Cloudflare announcements, the same applies to Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+. Cloudflare's Vite Ecosystem Open Source Fund Cloudflare is committed to helping Vite remain neutral and has also announced a new $1M open source fund for the Vite ecosystem. Alongside Vite's Open Collective (which stays managed by the Vite team), these funds will allow us to further improve Vite and its ecosystem, including: Fund more popular plugins and toolings in the ecosystem. Adopt a core team member stipend to support independent team members. Work closely with teams of the Vite stack, including Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+. Work closely with the ecosystem maintainers from frameworks, plugins, and deployment platforms. Work with standard bodies and adopt new web platform features faster. Audit and release security issues more quickly. Many of which we had already started working on, which will help accelerate the process. Thank You We want to thank our current sponsors through GitHub Sponsors and Open Collective, which ## Vite 8.0 is out! DevFeed: [Vite 8.0 is out!]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: The Vite Team Published: 2026-03-12T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Vite]() Topics: [Vite](), [Rust](), [Optimization](), [Developer experience](), [Orchestration](), [Parser](), [npm](), [GitHub]() Tags: [changelog](), [community](), [developer](), [developer-experience](), [docs](), [guide](), [links](), [maintainers](), [optimization](), [orchestration](), [rust](), [speed]() ### AI overview Vite 8 is a stable release that replaces Vite's separate esbuild and Rollup bundlers with Rolldown, a unified Rust-based bundler. The article highlights faster builds, plugin compatibility, a new searchable plugin registry, migration resources, and ways to contribute to the Vite ecosystem. ### Source excerpt Vite 8.0 is out! March 12, 2026 We're thrilled to announce the stable release of Vite 8! When Vite first launched, we made a pragmatic bet on two bundlers: esbuild for speed during development, and Rollup for optimized production builds. That bet served us well for years. We're very grateful to the Rollup and esbuild maintainers. Vite wouldn't have succeeded without them. Today, it resolves into one: Vite 8 ships with Rolldown as its single, unified, Rust-based bundler, delivering up to 10-30x faster builds while maintaining full plugin compatibility. This is the most significant architectural change since Vite 2. Vite is now being downloaded 65 million times a week, and the ecosystem continues to grow with every release. To help developers navigate the ever-expanding plugin landscape, we also launched registry.vite.dev, a searchable directory of plugins for Vite, Rolldown, and Rollup that collects plugin data from npm daily. Quick links: Docs Translations: 简体中文, 日本語, Español, Português, 한국어, Deutsch, فارسی Migration Guide GitHub Changelog Play online with Vite 8 using vite.new or scaffold a Vite app locally with your preferred framework running pnpm create vite. Check out the Getting Started Guide for more information. We invite you to help us improve Vite (joining the more than 1.2K contributors to Vite Core), our dependencies, or plugins and projects in the ecosystem. Learn more at our Contributing Guide. A good way to get started is by triaging issues, reviewing PRs, sending tests PRs based on open issues, and supporting others in Discussions or Vite Land's help forum. If you have questions, join our Discord community and talk to us in the #contributing channel. Stay updated and connect with others building on top of Vite by following us on Bluesky, X, or Mastodon. The Rolldown-Powered Vite The problem Since its earliest versions, Vite relied on two separate bundlers to serve different needs. esbuild handled fast compilation during development (dependency ## Vite 8 Beta: The Rolldown-powered Vite DevFeed: [Vite 8 Beta: The Rolldown-powered Vite]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: The Vite Team Published: 2025-12-03T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Vite]() Topics: [build times](), [Web Development]() Tags: [build-performance](), [javascript](), [migration](), [performance](), [release](), [rust](), [toolchain]() ### AI overview Vite 8 beta replaces its esbuild-and-Rollup pipeline with the Rust-based Rolldown bundler. The release emphasizes faster production builds, more consistent development and production behavior, and an integrated Vite, Rolldown, and Oxc toolchain. ### Source excerpt Vite 8 Beta: The Rolldown-powered Vite December 3, 2025 TL;DR: The first beta of Vite 8, powered by Rolldown, is now available. Vite 8 ships significantly faster production builds and unlocks future improvement possibilities. You can try the new release by upgrading vite to version 8.0.0-beta.0 and reading the migration guide. ## Vite 7.0 is out! DevFeed: [Vite 7.0 is out!]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: The Vite Team Published: 2025-06-24T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Vite]() Topics: [Vite](), [Front end](), [JavaScript](), [toolchain](), [build performance](), [Open Source](), [Rust](), [Tooling]() Tags: [2025](), [announcement](), [blog-post](), [docs](), [frontend](), [javascript](), [migration-guide](), [release](), [rust](), [toolchain](), [vite]() ### AI overview Vite 7.0 is released with updates focused on the JavaScript frontend ecosystem. The announcement highlights Rolldown, a Rust-based bundler intended to become Vite's default and reduce build times, along with planned Vite DevTools for deeper debugging and analysis. ### Source excerpt Vite 7.0 is out! June 24, 2025 We're happy to share the release of Vite 7! It has been 5 years since Evan You sent the first commit to the Vite repo, and nobody could have predicted how much the frontend ecosystem would change since then. Most modern frontend frameworks and tools are now working together, building on top of Vite's shared infrastructure. And they can innovate at a faster pace by sharing at a higher level. Vite is now being downloaded 31 million times a week, with a 14 million increase in the last seven months since the previous major release. This year, we're making several big steps. To start with, ViteConf is going to be in person! The Vite Ecosystem will gather in Amsterdam on October 9-10! Organized by JSWorld in partnership with Bolt, VoidZero, and the Vite Core Team! We had three incredible ViteConf online editions, and we can't wait to meet in real life. Check out the speakers and get your ticket at the ViteConf site! And VoidZero continues to make significant strides in its mission to build an open source unified development toolchain for the JavaScript ecosystem. Over the last year, the VoidZero team has been working on Rolldown, a Rust-based next-generation bundler, as part of a broader effort to modernize Vite's core. You can try out the Rolldown-powered Vite today by using the rolldown-vite package instead of the default vite package. It is a drop-in replacement, as Rolldown will become the default bundler for Vite in the future. Switching should reduce your build time, especially for larger projects. Read more at the Rolldown-vite announcement blog post and our migration guide. Through a partnership between VoidZero and NuxtLabs, Anthony Fu is working on creating Vite DevTools. They will offer deeper and more insightful debugging and analysis for all Vite-based projects and frameworks. You can read more on the VoidZero and NuxtLabs join forces on Vite Devtools blog post. Quick links: Docs New Translation: فارسی Other Translations: 简体中文 ## Vite 6.0 is out! DevFeed: [Vite 6.0 is out!]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: The Vite Team Published: 2024-11-26T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Vite]() Topics: [Vite](), [JavaScript](), [Framework](), [Development](), [Open Source](), [Rust]() Tags: [announce](), [announcements](), [development](), [javascript](), [open-source](), [rust](), [testing](), [vite]() ### AI overview Vite 6.0 has been released with a growing ecosystem, broader framework adoption, and increased weekly npm downloads. The announcement highlights Vitest-powered testing, Vite ecosystem projects, the JavaScript toolchain work of VoidZero, and Vite's Rust-powered future. ### Source excerpt Vite 6.0 is out! November 26, 2024 Today, we're taking another big step in Vite's story. The Vite team, contributors, and ecosystem partners are excited to announce the release of Vite 6. It has been an eventful year. Vite adoption keeps growing, with npm downloads per week jumping from 7.5 million to 17 million since the release of Vite 5 a year ago. Vitest is not only being favored more by users but is also starting to form an ecosystem of its own. For example, Storybook has new testing capabilities powered by Vitest. New frameworks have also joined the Vite ecosystem, including TanStack Start, One, Ember, and others. Web frameworks are innovating at an increasingly faster pace. You can check out the improvements folks have been doing at Astro, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Solid Start, Qwik City, RedwoodJS, React Router, and the list goes on. Vite is used by OpenAI, Google, Apple, Microsoft, NASA, Shopify, Cloudflare, GitLab, Reddit, Linear, among many others. Two months ago, we started a list of companies using Vite. We're happy to see many developers sending us a PR to add their companies to the list. It's hard to believe how much the ecosystem we built together has grown since Vite gave its first steps. Speeding up the Vite ecosystem Last month, the community gathered for the third edition of ViteConf, hosted once more by StackBlitz. It was the biggest Vite conference, with a broad representation of builders from the ecosystem. Among other announcements, Evan You announced VoidZero, a company dedicated to building an open-source, high-performance, and unified development toolchain for the JavaScript ecosystem. VoidZero is behind Rolldown and Oxc, and their team is making significant strides, getting them rapidly ready for being adopted by Vite. Watch Evan's keynote to learn more about the next steps for Vite's rust-powered future. Stackblitz unveiled bolt.new, a Remix app that combines Claude and WebContainers and lets you prompt, edit, run, and deploy full-stack apps. ## Vite 5.1 is out! DevFeed: [Vite 5.1 is out!]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: The Vite Team Published: 2024-02-08T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Vite]() Topics: [modern web development](), [Web Development]() Tags: [api](), [cache](), [css](), [release](), [server]() ### AI overview Vite 5.1 introduces experimental support for the Vite Runtime API, which runs code after Vite plugin processing and is decoupled from the server. The release also improves importing CSS files as URLs. ### Source excerpt Vite 5.1 is out! February 8, 2024 Vite 5 was released last November, and it represented another big leap for Vite and the ecosystem. A few weeks ago we celebrated 10 million weekly npm downloads and 900 contributors to the Vite repo. Today, we're excited to announce the release of Vite 5.1. Quick links: Docs, Changelog Docs in other languages: 简体中文, 日本語, Español, Português, 한국어, Deutsch Try Vite 5.1 online in StackBlitz: vanilla, vue, react, preact, lit, svelte, solid, qwik. If you're new to Vite, we suggest reading first the Getting Started and Features guides. To stay up to date, follow us on X or Mastodon. Vite Runtime API Vite 5.1 adds experimental support for a new Vite Runtime API. It allows running any code by processing it with Vite plugins first. It is different from server.ssrLoadModule because the runtime implementation is decoupled from the server. This lets library and framework authors implement their own layer of communication between the server and the runtime. This new API is intended to replace Vite's current SSR primitives once it is stable. The new API brings many benefits: Support for HMR during SSR. It is decoupled from the server, so there is no limit on how many clients can use a single server - every client has its own module cache (you can even communicate with it how you want - using message channel/fetch call/direct function call/websocket). It doesn't depend on any node/bun/deno built-in APIs, so it can run in any environment. It's easy to integrate with tools that have their own mechanism to run code (you can provide a runner to use eval instead of new AsyncFunction for example). The initial idea was proposed by Pooya Parsa and implemented by Anthony Fu as the vite-node package to power Nuxt 3 Dev SSR and later also used as the base for Vitest. So the general idea of vite-node has been battle-tested for quite some time now. This is a new iteration of the API by Vladimir Sheremet, who had already re-implemented vite-node in Vitest an ## Vite 5.0 is out! DevFeed: [Vite 5.0 is out!]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: The Vite Team Published: 2023-11-16T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Vite]() Topics: [Vite](), [build performance](), [Rust](), [Frameworks](), [Open Source]() Tags: [build-performance](), [frameworks](), [node-js](), [npm](), [open-source](), [release](), [rust](), [vite]() ### AI overview Vite 5 is released with Rollup 4, improved build performance, new options for profiling dev server performance, API cleanup, and the removal of deprecated features. The release also requires Node.js 18 or newer. The article describes Rolldown, a Rust-based Rollup port, as a future direction for improving performance and reducing differences between development and build workflows. ### Source excerpt Vite 5.0 is out! November 16, 2023 Vite 4 was released almost a year ago, and it served as a solid base for the ecosystem. npm downloads per week jumped from 2.5 million to 7.5 million, as projects keep building on a shared infrastructure. Frameworks continued to innovate, and on top of Astro, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Solid Start, Qwik City, between others, we saw new frameworks joining and making the ecosystem stronger. RedwoodJS and Remix switching to Vite paves the way for further adoption in the React ecosystem. Vitest kept growing at an even faster pace than Vite. Its team has been hard at work and will soon release Vitest 1.0. The story of Vite when used with other tools such as Storybook, Nx, and Playwright kept improving, and the same goes for environments, with Vite dev working both in Deno and Bun. We had the second edition of ViteConf a month ago, hosted by StackBlitz. Like last year, most of the projects in the ecosystem got together to share ideas and connect to keep expanding the commons. We're also seeing new pieces complement the meta-framework tool belt like Volar and Nitro. The Rollup team released Rollup 4 that same day, a tradition Lukas started last year. Six months ago, Vite 4.3 was released. This release significantly improved the dev server performance. However, there is still ample room for improvement. At ViteConf, Evan You unveiled Vite's long-term plan to work on Rolldown, a Rust-port of Rollup with compatible APIs. Once it is ready, we intend to use it in Vite Core to take on the tasks of both Rollup and esbuild. This will mean a boost in build performance (and later on in dev performance too as we move perf-sensitive parts of Vite itself to Rust), and a big reduction of inconsistencies between dev and build. Rolldown is currently in early stages and the team is preparing to open source the codebase before the end of the year. Stay tuned! Today, we mark another big milestone in Vite's path. The Vite team, contributors, and ecosystem partners, ## Vite 4.3 is out! DevFeed: [Vite 4.3 is out!]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: The Vite Team Published: 2023-04-20T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Vite]() Topics: [Vite](), [Caching](), [React](), [Benchmark](), [benchmarking](), [Node.js]() Tags: [benchmark](), [blog-post](), [caching](), [changelog](), [cpu](), [metrics](), [node-js](), [nvme](), [performance](), [performance-metrics](), [profiling](), [pull-request](), [react](), [speed](), [windows]() ### AI overview Vite 4.3 is a minor release focused on improving development server performance. It streamlines module resolution and adds smarter caching, with reported improvements over Vite 4.2 in startup and HMR benchmarks, including tests using React applications. The article also describes profiling tools and previews a future major release that will drop Node.js 14 and 16 support. ### Source excerpt Vite 4.3 is out! April 20, 2023 Quick links: Docs: English, 简体中文, 日本語, Español, Português Vite 4.3 Changelog Performance Improvements In this minor, we focused on improving the dev server performance. The resolve logic got streamlined, improving hot paths and implementing smarter caching for finding package.json, TS config files, and resolved URL in general. You can read a detailed walkthrough of the performance work done in this blog post by one of Vite Contributors: How we made Vite 4.3 faaaaster 🚀. This sprint resulted in speed improvements across the board compared to Vite 4.2. These are the performance improvements as measured by sapphi-red/performance-compare, which tests an app with 1000 React Components cold and warm dev server startup time as well as HMR times for a root and a leaf component: | Vite (babel) | Vite 4.2 | Vite 4.3 | Improvement | | : ## Vite 4.0 is out! DevFeed: [Vite 4.0 is out!]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: The Vite Team Published: 2022-12-09T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Vite]() Topics: [releases](), [migration]() Tags: [announcement](), [ecosystem](), [migration](), [release]() ### AI overview Vite 4.0 is announced, with Rollup 3 used at build time and a stated focus on a smooth upgrade path. ### Source excerpt Vite 4.0 is out! December 9, 2022 - Check out the Vite 5.0 announcement Vite 3 was released five months ago. npm downloads per week have gone from 1 million to 2.5 million since then. The ecosystem has matured too, and continues to grow. In this year's Jamstack Conf survey, usage among the community jumped from 14% to 32% while keeping a high 9.7 satisfaction score. We saw the stable releases of Astro 1.0, Nuxt 3, and other Vite-powered frameworks that are innovating and collaborating: SvelteKit, Solid Start, Qwik City. Storybook announced first-class support for Vite as one of its main features for Storybook 7.0. Deno now supports Vite. Vitest adoption is exploding, it will soon represent half of Vite's npm downloads. Nx is also investing in the ecosystem, and officially supports Vite. As a showcase of the growth Vite and related projects have experienced, the Vite ecosystem gathered on October 11th at ViteConf 2022. We saw representatives from the main web framework and tools tell stories of innovation and collaboration. And in a symbolic move, the Rollup team choose that exact day to release Rollup 3. Today, the Vite team with the help of our ecosystem partners, is happy to announce the release of Vite 4, powered during build time by Rollup 3. We've worked with the ecosystem to ensure a smooth upgrade path for this new major. Vite is now using Rollup 3, which allowed us to simplify Vite's internal asset handling and has many improvements. See the Rollup 3 release notes here. Quick links: Docs Migration Guide Changelog Docs in other languages: 简体中文 日本語 Español If you recently started using Vite, we suggest reading the Why Vite Guide and checking out the Getting Started and Features guide. If you want to get involved, contributions are welcome at GitHub. Almost 700 collaborators have contributed to Vite. Follow the updates on Twitter and Mastodon, or collaborate with others on our Discord community. Start playing with Vite 4 Use pnpm create vite to scaffold a V ## Vite 3.0 is out! DevFeed: [Vite 3.0 is out!]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: The Vite Team Published: 2022-07-23T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Vite]() Topics: [Vite](), [Documentation](), [Node.js](), [Testing](), [Dark Mode]() Tags: [announcement](), [dark-mode](), [discord](), [documentation](), [github](), [node-js](), [release](), [vite]() ### AI overview Vite 3.0 is released with a growing ecosystem, annual major releases aligned with Node.js end-of-life, and regular API reviews intended to provide short migration paths. The announcement also highlights new documentation, a VitePress-based default theme with dark mode, an auto-deployed main branch site, an official Spanish translation, and refreshed starter templates. ### Source excerpt Vite 3.0 is out! July 23, 2022 - Check out the Vite 4.0 announcement In February last year, Evan You released Vite 2. Since then, its adoption has grown non-stop, reaching more than 1 million npm downloads per week. A sprawling ecosystem rapidly formed after the release. Vite is powering a renewed innovation race in Web frameworks. Nuxt 3 uses Vite by default. SvelteKit, Astro, Hydrogen, and SolidStart are all built with Vite. Laravel has now decided to use Vite by default. Vite Ruby shows how Vite can improve Rails DX. Vitest is making strides as a Vite-native alternative to Jest. Vite is behind Cypress and Playwright's new Component Testing features, Storybook has Vite as an official builder. And the list goes on. Maintainers from most of these projects got involved in improving the Vite core itself, working closely with the Vite team and other contributors. Today, 16 months from the v2 launch we are happy to announce the release of Vite 3. We decided to release a new Vite major at least every year to align with Node.js's EOL, and take the opportunity to review Vite's API regularly with a short migration path for projects in the ecosystem. Quick links: Docs Migration Guide Changelog If you are new to Vite, we recommend reading the Why Vite Guide. Then check out the Getting Started and Features guide to see what Vite provides out of the box. As usual, contributions are welcome at GitHub. More than 600 collaborators have helped improve Vite so far. Follow the updates on Twitter, or join discussions with other Vite users on our Discord chat server. New Documentation Go to vite.dev to enjoy the new v3 docs. Vite is now using the new VitePress default theme, with a stunning dark mode between other features. Several projects in the ecosystem have already migrated to it (see Vitest, vite-plugin-pwa, and VitePress itself). If you need to access the Vite 2 docs, they will remain online at v2.vite.dev. There is also a new main.vite.dev subdomain, where each commit to Vi ## Announcing Vite 2.0 DevFeed: [Announcing Vite 2.0]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2021-02-16T00:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Vite]() Topics: [Vite](), [Front end](), [Web Development](), [React]() Tags: [build-tool](), [framework](), [frontend](), [integration](), [release](), [vite](), [web-development]() ### AI overview Vite 2.0 is introduced as a fast, lean build tool for frontend web development, combining a pre-configured development server with a bundler. The release adds a framework-agnostic core, a new plugin format and API, and esbuild-powered dependency pre-bundling for faster handling of dependencies and CommonJS-to-ESM conversion. ### Source excerpt Announcing Vite 2.0 February 16, 2021 - Check out the Vite 3.0 announcement Today we are excited to announce the official release of Vite 2.0! Vite (French word for "fast", pronounced /vit/) is a new kind of build tool for frontend web development. Think a pre-configured dev server + bundler combo, but leaner and faster. It leverages browser's native ES modules support and tools written in compile-to-native languages like esbuild to deliver a snappy and modern development experience. To get a sense of how fast Vite is, check out this video comparison of booting up a React application on Repl.it using Vite vs. create-react-app (CRA). If you've never heard of Vite before and would love to learn more about it, check out the rationale behind the project. If you are interested in how Vite differs from other similar tools, check out the comparisons. What's New in 2.0 Since we decided to completely refactor the internals before 1.0 got out of RC, this is in fact the first stable release of Vite. That said, Vite 2.0 brings about many big improvements over its previous incarnation: Framework Agnostic Core The original idea of Vite started as a hacky prototype that serves Vue single-file components over native ESM. Vite 1 was a continuation of that idea with HMR implemented on top. Vite 2.0 takes what we learned along the way and is redesigned from scratch with a more robust internal architecture. It is now completely framework agnostic, and all framework-specific support is delegated to plugins. There are now official templates for Vue, React, Preact, Lit Element, and ongoing community efforts for Svelte integration. New Plugin Format and API Inspired by WMR, the new plugin system extends Rollup's plugin interface and is compatible with many Rollup plugins out of the box. Plugins can use Rollup-compatible hooks, with additional Vite-specific hooks and properties to adjust Vite-only behavior (e.g. differentiating dev vs. build or custom handling of HMR). The programma