12 engineers on Hacker News describe using Vite first-hand: 6 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“because Vite is great. It only uses it in dev. In prod, no node involved.”
endorse · personal · jackielii · 2026-07-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Vite [1] to run the app in dev and build the app in prod”
endorse · production · ggregoire · 2025-06-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've switched from a custom bun build script back to vite.”
endorse · production · ToJans · 2025-04-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“use Next.js or Vite/Vike, which we use at Veryfront for its lightweight and performance.”
endorse · production · kojiwakayama · 2024-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was really happy to discover Vite so I don't have to change the way my whole app works with Next.js.”
endorse · personal · Noumenon72 · 2024-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using vite + svelte quite a lot and it's super nice and extremely lightweight/flexible.”
endorse · personal · speedylight · 2022-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“recently branched out for my Lab site to be just a simple static hub built with Vite/TypeScript/Tailwind”
neutral · personal · vunderba · 2026-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have a .NET/React/Vite webapp that despite the typical stack has a lot of very specific business logic for a real world niche.”
neutral · production · ewoodrich · 2025-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we tried that but have a few libraries that depend on SWC which made it a show stopper”
neutral · production · sondr3 · 2025-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the only major parts we’ve swapped have been react build with Vite”
neutral · production · devjab · 2024-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also upgraded vite to 4 with a few overrides to get swc.”
neutral · personal · jokethrowaway · 2022-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In dev, Vite is emitting 25-50 or so JS scripts. In prod, those will all be built into bundles.”
neutral · production · nobleach · 2022-07-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?