Vite is a modern build tool for TypeScript/JavaScript and CSS module bundling and transpiling, from the creator of Vue JS, Evan You. It provides a fast development experience by using native esbuild, and ES modules in the browser during development, and optimising build output with Rollup for production.

Using lazy loading of modules, tree-shaking, code-splitting, a built in dev server, and a growing plugin ecosystem, Vite provides significant simplicity and speed over tools like Webpack and Parcel.

Vite's features, outside of its performance characteristics, like Hot Module Replacement, TypeScript, JSON and JSX native imports, CSS imports, modules and postcss, make it a top choice for frontend development projects.