If you're immersed in the front-end world today you would probably know that "build tooling" (and could guess that just "tooling") typically means a) transpilat

If you're immersed in the front-end world today you would probably know that "build tooling" (and could guess that just "tooling") typically means a) transpilation, and b) bundling; "take my source and turn it into something I can ship and run". Usually there are also related features like minification and/or a live-reloading dev server. For a long time Babel and Webpack played these roles, respectively, but in the last couple years people have realized things can be way faster and simpler if you integrate the two steps into a single tool and make it opinionated and write it in a native language. As a result we've seen the explosion of options like esbuild, SWC, Parcel, etc. I assume Vite is somewhere in that space But I agree it's better to be explicit and not assume the reader has all the contextual background Edit: If you click "Why Vite?" they actually have a wonderful explainer that goes into the above and how Vite relates to it