--- title: The Rise of ViteJS: Unraveling its Popularity | daily.dev description: ViteJS is fundamentally a build tool and local development server. It is designed to streamline the front-end development of modern web apps by reloading code... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-rise-of-vitejs-unraveling-its-popularity-u9u2xj4jc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Rise of ViteJS: Unraveling its Popularity | daily.dev og:description: ViteJS is fundamentally a build tool and local development server. It is designed to streamline the front-end development of modern web apps by reloading code... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-rise-of-vitejs-unraveling-its-popularity-u9u2xj4jc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/U9u2XJ4jC.png og:image:alt: The Rise of ViteJS: Unraveling its Popularity 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. # The Rise of ViteJS: Unraveling its Popularity **[Codemotion](https://daily.dev/sources/codemotion)** · 6 min read · 16 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary ViteJS is fundamentally a build tool and local development server. It is designed to streamline the front-end development of modern web apps by reloading code modules dynamically to avoid recompiling the entire application. Vite is, in part, built on Rollup, but bottlenecks can be a problem for developers with complex code. ## 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. **@kyoukhana** · 2 upvotes > Its pretty amazing :) Probably only going to get better. I hope developers stick to this amazing tool and also contribute to make it better. --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#community](https://daily.dev/tags/community), [#frontend](https://daily.dev/tags/frontend), [#npm](https://daily.dev/tags/npm), [#ui-design](https://daily.dev/tags/ui-design), [#vite](https://daily.dev/tags/vite) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-rise-of-vitejs-unraveling-its-popularity-u9u2xj4jc) ```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":"The Rise of ViteJS: Unraveling its Popularity","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-rise-of-vitejs-unraveling-its-popularity-u9u2xj4jc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-rise-of-vitejs-unraveling-its-popularity-u9u2xj4jc"},"datePublished":"2023-08-09T07:25:40.402Z","dateModified":"2023-08-09T07:25:16.893Z","description":"ViteJS is fundamentally a build tool and local development server. 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