Vite 5.1 is out! ​February 8, 2024Vite 5 was released last November, and it represented another big leap for Vite and the ecosystem. A few weeks ago we celebrated 10 million weekly npm downloads and 900 contributors to the Vite repo. Today, we're excited to announce the release of Vite 5.1.Quick links: Docs, ChangelogDocs in other languages: 简体中文, 日本語, Español, Português, 한국어, DeutschTry Vite 5.1 online in StackBlitz: vanilla, vue, react, preact, lit, svelte, solid, qwik.If you're new to Vite, we suggest reading first the Getting Started and Features guides.To stay up to date, follow us on X or Mastodon.Vite Runtime API ​Vite 5.1 adds experimental support for a new Vite Runtime API. It allows running any code by processing it with Vite plugins first. It is different from server.ssrLoadModule because the runtime implementation is decoupled from the server. This lets library and framework authors implement their own layer of communication between the server and the runtime. This new API

Vite 4.3 is out! ​April 20, 2023Quick links:Docs: English, 简体中文, 日本語, Español, PortuguêsVite 4.3 ChangelogPerformance Improvements ​In this minor, we focused on improving the dev server performance. The resolve logic got streamlined, improving hot paths and implementing smarter caching for finding package.json, TS config files, and resolved URL in general.You can read a detailed walkthrough of the performance work done in this blog post by one of Vite Contributors: How we made Vite 4.3 faaaaster 🚀.This sprint resulted in speed improvements across the board compared to Vite 4.2.These are the performance improvements as measured by sapphi-red/performance-compare, which tests an app with 1000 React Components cold and warm dev server startup time as well as HMR times for a root and a leaf component:| Vite (babel) | Vite 4.2 | Vite 4.3 | Improvement || :

Vite 3.0 is out! ​July 23, 2022 - Check out the Vite 4.0 announcementIn February last year, Evan You released Vite 2. Since then, its adoption has grown non-stop, reaching more than 1 million npm downloads per week. A sprawling ecosystem rapidly formed after the release. Vite is powering a renewed innovation race in Web frameworks. Nuxt 3 uses Vite by default. SvelteKit, Astro, Hydrogen, and SolidStart are all built with Vite. Laravel has now decided to use Vite by default. Vite Ruby shows how Vite can improve Rails DX. Vitest is making strides as a Vite-native alternative to Jest. Vite is behind Cypress and Playwright's new Component Testing features, Storybook has Vite as an official builder. And the list goes on. Maintainers from most of these projects got involved in improving the Vite core itself, working closely with the Vite team and other contributors.Today, 16 months from the v2 launch we are happy to announce the release of Vite 3. We decided to release a new Vite major at le