Why use Vite when Bun is also a bundler? - Vite vs. Bun

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Zig Landing Page
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Zig

Zig is a general-purpose programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and maintainability.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Bun is not just a Node replacement, but a Zig port of esbuild (initially the same fast algorithm), so includes it's own (currently limited) bundler:.

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Vite Landing Page
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Vite

Next Generation Frontend Tooling
Pricing:
- Open Source
Vite is a fast local development server, which uses a bundler to create the bundle of JS that the client receives. It currently uses two bundlers, actually.

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Node.js Landing Page

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Node.js

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications

But my guess is that Vite will still be "Next Generation Frontend Tooling" for a while. If only for all of the projects that will still run on Node, due to:.

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esbuild Landing Page
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esbuild

An extremely fast JavaScript bundler and minifier
Pricing:
- Open Source
For production, Vite can use another bundler, esbuild, to speed up transpilation and minification, while it in production also uses the bundler Rollup to create the client side JS bundle, due to Rollup's flexible API. Even though Vite uses ESM in development environment, for speed. In the future Vite may use esbuild entirely for bundling instead of Rollup, due to the speed it would gain.

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