"This year, Vite crossed 140 million weekly downloads, surpassing Webpack and continuing its upward trend. It's a wild milestone, considering Webpack was the cornerstone bundler for JavaScript for a very long time, and few would have predicted Vite overtaking it. With Vite, developers now enjoy faster build times and instant hot reloads, which means the next generation may never know the pain of waiting minutes to start a dev server."
"Then Grunt would march through that list task by task. It was a relief compared to running each step manually, but it also meant managing endless plugins and keeping a massive config in sync. Gulp arrived to make things smoother. Instead of heavy config files, you wrote tasks in actual JavaScript using streams. That made it faster and easier to compose and build pipelines. For a while, Gulp was everywhere."
Vite surpassed Webpack in weekly downloads by delivering much faster build times and near-instant hot reloads. Early frontend workflows used task runners like Grunt and Gulp to automate steps, but those tools lacked module awareness and required large configurations or stream-based tasks. That shortcoming led to bundlers such as Browserify and Webpack, with Webpack becoming the dominant solution for years. Vite leverages native ES modules and a dev-server-first design to minimize startup and reload latency, prompting many developers to migrate toward Vite for significantly improved local development speed and iteration.
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