Webpack has dominated for years. But Vite (powered by esbuild) is 100x faster.
Why Vite is Fast
Webpack bundles your entire application before serving it. Vite serves source files over native ESM (ES Modules). The browser does the importing.
On a large React project, our startup time went from 45 seconds (Webpack) to 300ms (Vite). It is not even a contest.
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