--- title: What the heck is Vue Vite? | daily.dev description: Vite is a lightening fast cold server that offers instant hot modules replacement and True on demand compilation. Primarily Vite was built for Vue 3 but... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-the-heck-is-vue-vite--6i5kftq4t twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What the heck is Vue Vite? | daily.dev og:description: Vite is a lightening fast cold server that offers instant hot modules replacement and True on demand compilation. Primarily Vite was built for Vue 3 but... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-the-heck-is-vue-vite--6i5kftq4t og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6I5kftq4t.png og:image:alt: What the heck is Vue Vite? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What the heck is Vue Vite? **[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · 3 min read · 17 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Vite is a lightening fast cold server that offers instant hot modules replacement and True on demand compilation. Primarily Vite was built for Vue 3 but nevertheless we can still use it in our Vue 2 Application. Vite allows you to serve your code via native ES Module imports during development, allowing you to develop Vue single file components. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@idoshamun** · 0 upvotes > "Vite is a Lightening fast cold server that offers instant hot modules replacement and True on demand compilation." > The post also shows an example of how to use it --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#vite](https://daily.dev/tags/vite), [#vuejs](https://daily.dev/tags/vuejs) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-the-heck-is-vue-vite--6i5kftq4t) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What the heck is Vue Vite?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-the-heck-is-vue-vite--6i5kftq4t","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-the-heck-is-vue-vite--6i5kftq4t"},"datePublished":"2020-10-09T06:26:07.498Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T05:25:27.977Z","description":"Vite is a lightening fast cold server that offers instant hot modules replacement and True on demand compilation. 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