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I find it really funny that the word "javascript" doesn't appear anywhere on the entire first landing page. You have to click into "Why Vite" and then about 1/2
by barkingcat 4y ago
I find it really funny that the word "javascript" doesn't appear anywhere on the entire first landing page. You have to click into "Why Vite" and then about 1/2 way into the first sentence, then you see "javascript"
I was wondering "exactly what kind of front end?" C? C++? Swift? iOS front end? some kind of GUI framework? Windows app development?
Modern day Javascript web ecosystem is a nightmare.
- dzogchen 4y agoNo it is not a nightmare. It is actually quite pleasant thanks to Vite.
- barkingcat 4y agoYou say that now, but 3 years in the future you'll be posting "Vite destroyed the Javascript ecosystem"
- cmykk4 4y agoWith respect, this suggests to me that you haven't actually read about how Vite works. It's not aiming to be just another contender, it sort of positions itself as a "best of both worlds" abstraction layer on other tools, whereby esbuild is used for faster compilation and rollup is used for configurable builds. It's not as drastic of a change as you're making it out to be, unless someone is coming from like a Gulp-based setup or something. My work uses Webpack 3 and 4 (in a monorepo) and I was able to get Vite up and running on a test branch (as a sandbox) within a day, even though it's using roll-up instead of Webpack and even though our code was pretty old. It compiled in like a few seconds, it was wild.