Vite is so lightweight it feels more like http server than a build system. The reason why it’s needed at all is it adapts npm packages that are not es modules.

Vite is so lightweight it feels more like http server than a build system. The reason why it’s needed at all is it adapts npm packages that are not es modules. It gives you access to all of npm while requiring very little in return. You can even turn off any transpilation/minification if you want to it to be more 1:1.