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Vite

Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

Vite is an open-source libraries and runtimes project on GitHub under the MIT license (permissive), with 84k stars. It is built with TypeScript and V8. Its last push was today.

Stars
84k
License
MIT
Activity
Active
Latest release
create-vite@9.3.3

Code on GitHub Website

Judgement

What it is
Developer tool
What it does
A front-end build tool and dev server with instant hot module reloading and optimised production builds, used by Vue, Svelte, React and others.
Adopt it when
You start or modernise a front-end project and want fast builds.
Watch out
The bundler underneath is being replaced with Rolldown, so plugin behaviour may shift.
Ready for
Production-ready
Runs as
Command line
Built with
TypeScript, Rollup and esbuild
How established
Established: started 6 years ago, latest release create-vite@9.3.3.
What the license allows
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

TypeScriptV8

Follow it down: Vite → TypeScript → Go → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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