Vite and Node.js: Running a Local Server

Introduction

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.

Node.js

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