Vite is kind of nice because it weaves together some more modern tools, but if you're doing something simple, you might be able to just use esbuild directly on

Vite is kind of nice because it weaves together some more modern tools, but if you're doing something simple, you might be able to just use esbuild directly on it's own. Bonus: if you're writing Go software, you can use esbuild's (slightly cumbersome) Go API directly in your app server and avoid needing to have JS tooling in your serving/building path, just using Node to handle things like JS package management, typechecking, and linting.