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Re:Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling by kitd on Monday July 04, 2022 @01:52AM (#31973856)
IIRC Vite wraps esbuild, which is written in Go and very fast.
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Re:Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling by sebdufbeau on Monday July 04, 2022 @10:06AM (#31977171)
You can use esbuild with webpack via esbuild-loader, but what makes Vite so fast is mainly the strategy of pre-bundling dependencies when running the dev server, this makes hot starts and hot reloads incredibly quick.
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