PART 00
Getting started
What Vite 8 promises, and a working project in five minutes.
- 0.1Why We Need ViteStart from traditional dev server bottlenecks, then learn why Vite avoids bundling in dev and why Vite 8 uses Rolldown to align the dev/build mental model.
- 0.2A working Vite project in five minutesScaffold a React + TS project with create-vite and learn what every file in the directory means.
- 0.3Anatomy of a Vite projectTake apart every file in a Vite project — why index.html sits at the root, what vite.config.ts can do, what dev mode actually does differently from build mode.
- 0.4How to read this siteConventions used across the guide — V7 diff blocks, difficulty rating, interactive components, code-block notation. Five minutes here saves hours later.
- 0.5Vite CLI WorkflowA practical workflow for create-vite, dev, build, preview, --host, --mode, --debug, and --force.