Vite 8.0 has been released, and it uses Rust-built Rolldown as its single bundler, replacing both esbuild and Rollup, to enable faster builds.

Vite is both a development server and a build tool for TypeScript and JavaScript applications, with support for hot module replacement (HMR), which updates code without a full page reload, and plugins to add functionality such as framework-specific features. Vite can be used with many frameworks and, according to the introductory post for version 8.0, is currently downloaded 65 million times a week.