Vite and Node.js: Running a Local Server
Bryan M Lecza edited this page Dec 6, 2023
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In order to build our frontend, we needed to see what our website looked like as we constructed it. In order to do this, we needed to run a local server which could host our website and show live edits. The tools we used for this were Node.js and Vite.
Vite is a development tool that comes with a local development server for building applications.
When creating your own server, dependencies can often cause slow start up times, however Vite pre-bundles dependencies causing speeds to increase by a factor of ten to a hundred.
Bryan Lecza