# Replit — Why We Switched From Webpack To Vite

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2021-04-28
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/vite
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18234-why-we-switched-from-webpack-to-vite
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit switched its React template from Create React App and Webpack to Vite, a JavaScript build tool that provides faster development through pre-bundling dependencies with esbuild and serving source code over native ES Modules. The change resulted in significantly faster hot module replacement and build times, enabling quicker prototyping and development on the platform.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://replit.com/blog/vite:

> Vite makes React dev fast. Like really fast. With HMR, changes you make trigger rerenders within milliseconds which makes prototyping UIs really quick.

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