How Vite Came to Be
summary
Proof-of-concept dev server appears in March 2019 that transforms Vue single-file components and later adds hot module replacement over native ESM; NPM deps get normalized using Snowpack v1 (ES Install) and production uses a Rollup-powered production build. A frenetic 91 releases between April and November 2020 lead to a full rewrite (Dec 2020–Feb 2021) that ships V2 with esbuild-powered dependency pre-bundling claiming ~100x faster dependency handling and a framework-agnostic plugin API.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:07The state of web tooling
- 2:24Pre-bundler era
- 5:04The rise of bundlers
- 7:38Vue CLI and conventions
- 9:47Native ESM and Rollup
- 11:57Vite concept and challenges
- 14:21Developing the first prototype
- 16:47Dependency handling and SSR
- 18:40VitePress as an experiment
- 20:44The road to Vite 1.0
- 22:46Vite 2 rewrite
- 24:06Vite community and future
