--- title: Why You Should Ditch Create-React-App for Vite | daily.dev description: Vite is a build tool similar to Webpack. It can be used for React, Preact, Svelte, Vue, Vanilla JS, and LitElements. Vite uses route-based code-splitting to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-ditch-create-react-app-for-vite-jx5aocuap twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why You Should Ditch Create-React-App for Vite | daily.dev og:description: Vite is a build tool similar to Webpack. It can be used for React, Preact, Svelte, Vue, Vanilla JS, and LitElements. Vite uses route-based code-splitting to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-ditch-create-react-app-for-vite-jx5aocuap og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JX5AOcUAP.png og:image:alt: Why You Should Ditch Create-React-App for 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. # Why You Should Ditch Create-React-App for Vite **[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · [@israelmitolu](https://daily.dev/israelmitolu) · 5 min read · 153 upvotes · 17 comments ## Summary Vite is a build tool similar to Webpack. It can be used for React, Preact, Svelte, Vue, Vanilla JS, and LitElements. Vite uses route-based code-splitting to figure out what parts of the code actually need to be loaded, and doesn't have to pre-bundle everything. ## 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. **@lucascardim7** · 2 upvotes > didnt know about vite. Looks amazing **@aramlr** · 1 upvotes > I totally agree. I remember that using CRA consumed a lot of CPU **@ghost** · 1 upvotes > vite is amazing BUT in some cases does not work with certain WebAssembly library, so I cannot not ditch CRA completely yet **@mervyndean** · 1 upvotes > just heard of Vite.. thank you for the knowledge **@alphadev102** · 1 upvotes > helpful for me > thanks for sharing ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react), [#vite](https://daily.dev/tags/vite) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-ditch-create-react-app-for-vite-jx5aocuap) ```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":"Why You Should Ditch Create-React-App for Vite","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-ditch-create-react-app-for-vite-jx5aocuap","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-ditch-create-react-app-for-vite-jx5aocuap"},"datePublished":"2022-05-05T13:42:47.132Z","dateModified":"2022-05-05T13:42:47.132Z","description":"Vite is a build tool similar to Webpack. 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