SMRTR ProgrammingSep 28, 2025Daily.dev

How Vite Became the Backbone of Modern Frontend Frameworks

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Vite creator Evan You built the revolutionary build tool in 2020 out of frustration with Webpack's slow performance, leveraging ES Modules to enable real-time compilation without bundling and implementing blazing-fast hot module replacement. Within five years, Vite became the backbone for major frameworks like Vue, SvelteKit, Astro, and React ecosystems, with You now developing Vite+ through his company VoidZero as a unified JavaScript development toolchain.

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