---
title: "Time to Say Goodbye to Webpack?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/time-to-say-goodbye-to-webpack--enrnnxxhl
source_url: https://javascript.plainenglish.io/time-to-say-goodbye-to-webpack-5bf06ff48823
type: article
source: "JavaScript in Plain English"
published: 2022-01-31T13:56:48.252Z
updated: 2026-03-15T07:01:19.817Z
tags: ["general-programming", "react", "tools", "vite", "webpack"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 191
comments: 9
language: en
---

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# Time to Say Goodbye to Webpack?

**[JavaScript in Plain English](https://daily.dev/sources/jsPlainEnglish)** · 5 min read · 191 upvotes · 9 comments

## Summary

Vite is a build tool that aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects. Vite is opinionated and comes with sensible defaults out of the box, but is also highly extensible via its plugin API and JavaScript API with full typing support.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@firehawk91** · 4 upvotes

> From the very first time I had to deal with Webpack (until I found out about Vite) I hated every single second spent on it. It always felt slow and I couldn't get my mind around the fact that frontend devs had to deal with it daily. I'll always recommend it when the project can move from webpack or don't even use it from the beginning.

**@lorezz** · 1 upvotes

> Love Vite, anyway nowadays i use a lot more next and remix for my web experiments...

**@sohhamm** · 1 upvotes

> Vite is amazing, just waiting for esbuild to be stable enough to be used in production and not just dev server.

**@anam0927** · 1 upvotes

> Great article!
> I really was wondering what exactly are the advantages of Vite over webpack and this clears it up completely!
>
>
> Maybe I'll pitch it to my company for our product

**@posandu** · 1 upvotes

> Thanks, Now I can improve performance of my apps 😁

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