Rollup VS vite

Other popular build tools include Vite.js, Browserify, Rollup - The bundler behind vite.

Awhile back I wrote about packaging your JavaScript library code into a dual-module bundle (ESM + CommonJS) using Rollup module bundler. Make sure to check it out (it's been updated for Rollup v3!).

While searching for a solution, I came across this issue. Ironically, one of the suggested solutions in there was the initial solution described earlier above. However, there was also another suggestion.

In this blog, we'll cover how to implement a simple login signup functionality using firebase. We'll be using modular JavaScript SDK, which (according to the documentation) provides a reduced SDK size and greater efficiency with modern JavaScript build tools such as Webpack or Rollup.

My go-to front end these days is Lit with web components, rollup, and web dev server.

With tools like webpack (used by create-react-app under the hood), your entire application needs to be bundled in a single file before it can be served to the browser. Vite, on the other hand, takes advantage of native ES modules in the browser to make bundling more efficient with Rollup, serving parts of the source code as needed.

We use Vite as a dev server. This allows you to take advantage of hot reloading in development and easily build and minify code with Rollup integration. Vitest is also provided, so you can write tests in the matching folder.

In this project I use my favorite bundling tool called vite, It is a fast compiler & bundler, and it uses rollup under the hood.

While not too long, css`@apply is a lot to repeat for every class you want to “compile”. That’s why using Vite and some Rollup plugins (Vite uses Rollup under the hood) I was able to shorten it into this:

Most front-end frameworks nowadays include these features as part of their CLI’s such as Create React App, Angular’s ng-cli, etc. For those that don’t, many will use a combination of some type of bundler like Parcel, Rollup, or Webpack and a browser refresher like livereload. This enables you to write code, save it, and immediately see the results. This in turn leads to fast feedback as you iterate all day in this build loop. The native Elm Reactor doesn’t offer this ability and elm-live fits the bill as a small Node.js library to enable this.

There are still several caveats using Vite as replacement. Personally I stumbled through these two issues a few times: [2433 - storybook related](https://github.com/vitejs/vite/issues/2433) and [2139](https://github.com/vitejs/vite/issues/2139)

Vite: Uses Vite as the build tool, which provides a fast and modern development experience for web applications.

There's an open issue on the Vite repo that is completely blocking us from migrating because the build speed gains are not worth the cost of upgrading our AWS pipeline.

We use Vite for our build pipeline. Vite does a number of things, but mainly it:

I would switch over to vite but this is my only issue: https://github.com/vitejs/vite/issues/3924

Vite is one of the fastest ways to start a project in react. It has faster server start time. It has better compatibility with plugins. It supports TypeScript, has better dependency resolving features out of the box. React projects created from Vite are just 20% the size of that created by CRA. You can read more about Vite here

Bad idea. We ran into this long standing issue with a project at work. There are some workarounds, but if they don't work for you, there's literally no fix.

While I can definitely agree with Vite over CRA (or anything over CRA really), please be aware of the longstanding issue with incompatibilities with module and non-module dependencies that have plagued Vite and Rollup for two years now: https://github.com/vitejs/vite/issues/2139

In the blog post linked above, we talked about creating mobile applications with Vue, Vite, and Ionic Capacitor.

Vite is a build tool that aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects. It consists of two major parts: