Vite

“spinning up vite + react is trivial, doesn't pull a ton of dependencies”

“All this was a big source of churn for plugins and frameworks”

“Extremely happy user of Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, tsdown, Oxlint, and Oxfmt.”

“I went from 4 to 8 in a single step. I had to change 5 lines of config.”

“Vite pumps out major versions -- that is, breaking changes -- at an incredible rate.”

“the speed and improvements over these versions had been quite significant”

“Each one of those had breaking changes and required devs to go through a migration.”

“the jank levels seem to generally be decreasing with every next attempt to get things right”

“Sure beats opening some ancient project and seeing some mix of Vite, Vitest, Oxlint and Oxfmt”

“SvelteKit, and by extension, Vite, has been the single most productive webstack I have ever used.”

“I love Vite, Vitest, Oxlint and Oxfmt and look in their direction for most of my new projects!”

“Love Vite, but always felt sorry for them because it was not clear how they can make money”

“it simplified the existing webpack thing drastically, I was very impressed”

“Vite (and its ecosystem) _with_ pnpm is likely the best combination avlbl.”

“VoidZero's tools (Vite + oxcfmt + oxclint) are radically simpler and more performant.”

“The fact that we can "just forget it exists" is a major win in my case.”

“It took things that made you feel mentally deficient and made them almost zero-config.”

“it's been evident that tools like Vite, Bun, etc. have achieved all they meaningfully can”

“switching from create-react-app with its hundreds of transitive dependencies to vite”

“Honestly, Vite is all you need. It's super flexible compared to the status quo”

“My 10 minute Next build was replaced with a 1 minute 30 second Vite build.”

“Moving a static-only site off Next to Vite was much easier than I expected.”

“I really appreciate the extra effort that the team have put on even this minor feature add.”

“rollupOptions.output.manualChunks that now has to be rewritten”

“I am not interested in adjusting my projects, just because things changed under the hood in "wrappers" like Vite”

“Dev server time reduced to 1.5s from 8s and build reduced to 35s from 2m30. Really really impressed.”

“I've been using rolldown-vite for the past 3-4 months with absolutely no issues”

“The move from dual-bundler (esbuild + Rollup) to Rolldown as a single unified Rust bundler is exactly the kind of consolidation the JS tooling ecosystem needed.”

“Awesome! Too bad Next.js will never profit from these incredible community efforts”

“We saw around an 8x improvement (4m -> 30s) in our prod build, and it was nearly a drop-in replacement.”

“seems to favor just pure speed for any other feature support like MDX, advanced SEO”

“it makes their paid product kind of a bet against their open product”

“if you want the best results or to hit all the edge cases you'd still want vite”

“Vite has been stable for years at least 5 years now and is built-upon because it's fast, stable, reliable”

“Vite recognizes the `new URL('...', import.meta.url)` pattern and will include the asset in the build output”

“Vite and Bun are about a billion years ahead of their analog in the Java ecosystem”

“A creation so superior that it couldn't be confined to Vue and React community adopted it.”

“Some nice performance improvements, really looking forward to their new bundler mentioned at the end for large codebases.”

“Once you start using hot reload with Vite you can't go back to waiting seconds for every change”

“Hot-reloads in a modern bundler like Vite will typically be instantaneous.”