[overflyer]

As someone who has zero idea about web development can someone explain to me what vite is compared to Vue or React? Btw, I am a programmer and the only thing that always overwhelmed me is web development. The ecosystem is so massively complex. How do I start learning it?

[CharlesW]

Vite is a web app "build tool". During development, it serves your web app locally with features that make the development process quicker and easier. For production deployments, Vite builds optimized static assets that you deploy to a web server or services like Cloudflare Pages/Workers, Netlify, Vercel, etc.

Vue and React are JavaScript frameworks for building user interfaces. Vite is framework-agnostic, offering official plugins for React and Vue, as well as community plugins¹ for frameworks like Svelte, Preact, SolidJS, and more. It can also be used for vanilla JavaScript projects.

If you want to understand why Vite matters, the 30m ViteConf 2024 keynote is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKvvptbTx6k

¹ https://github.com/vitejs/awesome-vite#plugins

[overflyer]

Thank you so so much :) !