Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling
It gave me a pause to think about how it came that I can never really tell what am I looking at anymore. Forget the HN title, which is stupid — what does this landing page tell me? Well, that it's… next gen, and it apparently can catch up with me, which is not much, since I'm not really catching up with what's going on anyway. Also, that it's "tooling". Like IDE, or framework, or maybe a chainsaw. Can't tell.<p>"Getting started" page tells me that "Vite" (pronounced as "veet") is "quick" in French, then it proceeds with quite wordy installation guide. It also <i>quick</i>ly mentions that it's a "build tool". Finally. So, like gulp or grunt, I guess? But it doesn't even mention those, or any other build tools it supposedly replaces. And it seems unlikely, since everybody uses some script that comes with angular or vue or any other framework of your choice nowadays…