Adding a REST API to your Vite Server in 5 Seconds

• Express

  90 63,649 7.6 JavaScript

  Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.

  

  I've been using express to build out APIs pretty much since it first came out. Checkout my course on using express 5 if you want a quick tutorial. Express makes it easy to build out APIs and it's super easy to add express support to your vite app. You just need a single plugin: vite-plugin-mix.

• vite

  128 64,457 9.9 TypeScript

  Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

  

  Like many others I've been blown way by the incredible performance and capabilities of vite as a tool for rapidly building out React apps. In my role as an egghead educator and a Developer Advocate at PayPal I'm looking for tools that install quickly, have minimal setup costs and let me start building immediately. vite does all that and more, but in the past I often run into one limitation: I need some kind of API to complement my apps.

• SurveyJS

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• vite-plugin-mix

  0 228 0.0 TypeScript

  Adding backend API to your Vite app.

  I've been using express to build out APIs pretty much since it first came out. Checkout my course on using express 5 if you want a quick tutorial. Express makes it easy to build out APIs and it's super easy to add express support to your vite app. You just need a single plugin: vite-plugin-mix.

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