Vite

If you’ve been building front-end applications for the past decade, Webpack has probably been a constant companion—sometimes helpful, often frustrating, occasionally infuriating. Those 30-second (or 3-minute) build times. That sprawling configuration file that no one fully understands. The mysterious “Module not found” errors that appear only in production.

Then you hear about Vite. Cold server starts in milliseconds. Hot module replacement that actually feels instant. Configuration so simple you wonder if you’re missing something.