Configuring Vite
We configure and optimize Vite for your React, Vue or Vanilla projects: instant dev server, optimized front-end builds, custom plugins. The fastest workflow on the market.
How do you configure Vite with React?
Vite is the front-end build tool created by Evan You (Vue.js). Configuring Vite with React takes a few minutes: a vite.config.ts with the @vitejs/plugin-react plugin, and the dev server starts in under 500ms via native ESM with HMR in under 50ms. It's our standard for all React/TypeScript projects since 2024.
Why we use Vite
Instant startup
The Vite dev server starts in under 500ms regardless of project size. Modules are loaded on demand via native ESM.
Ultra-fast HMR
Hot Module Replacement in under 50ms. You edit a component, it updates instantly without reloading the page.
Optimized Rollup build
Automatic code splitting, tree-shaking, optimized chunks: the production front-end builds are performant without complex configuration.
Plugin ecosystem
Official React, SVG and PWA plugins, plus hundreds of community plugins. Vite extends for every need in your project.
What Vite changes for your team
Less time waiting, more time coding: the DX that makes your team more productive.
Developer productivity
A dev server that starts in seconds and instant HMR: your developers spend less time waiting, more time shipping.
Faster CI builds
The Vite front-end build is 2 to 5 times faster than Webpack. The CI pipeline speeds up, and so do the iterations.
Simple configuration
vite.config.ts is readable and minimal. No 200-line Webpack configuration to understand before getting started.
Performance in production
Automatic code splitting, lazy loading: users load only the code needed for each route.
Vite in our projects, in numbers
What we build with Vite
We combine Vite with
The stack that surrounds Vite on our projects.
How we configure Vite
Every stack comes with its own ecosystem. We always pick the technologies best suited to your project, based on its needs and its context.
Configuring Vite with React is done in one command: `npm create vite@latest my-app -- --template react-ts`. The project starts with TypeScript, the official React plugin and a dev server ready in under 500ms. We then refine the config to fit the project's needs.
The Vite front-end build uses Rollup with automatic code splitting and tree-shaking. To go further: configure manualChunks to control the chunks, enable Brotli compression, and use rollup-plugin-visualizer to analyze the bundle and spot the heavy dependencies.
Vite is a build tool for SPAs and libraries. Next.js is a complete SSR framework. For a dashboard or a React app with no SEO need, Vite is simpler and more direct. For a public site with server rendering, Next.js is the clear choice.
Vitest shares the Vite config and is significantly faster than Jest on a Vite project. We recommend Vitest for all new Vite projects: unified configuration, faster execution, consistent DX.
Yes, natively via vite.config.ts. For full SSR with routing and data fetching, React Router v7 or Remix on Vite are our main recommendations.
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Your front-end project with Vite
We configure and optimize your Vite tooling. Instant dev server, optimized builds, ultra-fast HMR.
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