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Jun 30, 2024 · Frontend Development

Understanding Vite’s Development Server Architecture and Pre‑bundling Mechanism

This article explains how Vite achieves fast development by serving ES modules directly, using a connect‑based dev server with plugin‑driven transforms, pre‑bundling dependencies via esbuild, generating hash‑based cache keys, and reusing the same plugins in Rollup for production builds.