Vite Crash Course | Faster Alternative To CRA

In this video, we will talk about the Vite JavaScript build tool. We will also compare it to Webpack as well as Create React App.
💻 Blog Post:
www.traversymedia.com/blog/vi...
⭐ All Courses:
traversymedia.com
💖 Show Support
Patreon: / traversymedia
PayPal: paypal.me/traversymedia
👇 Follow Traversy Media On Social Media:
Twitter: / traversymedia
Instagram: / traversymedia
Linkedin: / bradtraversy
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:13 - Vite vs Traditional Module Bundlers
3:50 - Vite vs Create React App
7:14 - Setting Up a Project
8:21 - File & Folder Structure
11:27 - Creating a React Component
12:23 - Environment Variables
13:50 - Using Sass
14:50 - Build For Production & Preview
15:19 - Plugins

[@bryan6090]

HOW this is the third time I needed to learn a particular language quick and when I get ready to study it, you've released a video

[@TraversyMedia]

Magic 🪄

[@ZaidMarrie]

I just got started with Vite today, and I just got a notification for this vid. It is magical lol.

[@LtdJorge]

Always happened to me, a couple years back

[@aritramukherjee]

💯 exactly same for me

[@hasithadhananjaya2806]

​@@TraversyMedia what's the npm i command usage in this video please describe it little more.

[@anonymousontheinternet4486]

Just got started with Vite. Wanted a really quick intro so I could jump into it and not have to waste time watching a 2hr tutorial. This was perfect. Anything I need, I'll learn on the way.

[@RustyNox]

Hey Brad, this was really useful to me, thank you for the long-form content on Vite, super clear explanation, love your style!

[@isaacqadri]

The future of frontend tooling is here, thank you Brad.

[@haciendadad]

Thanks Brad! A replacement for CRA has been a long overdue! Vite looks really cool and excited to use it; starting today.

[@voidmind]

The developer experience is so much better! No more having to wait for the code to rebuild, and often you won't have to reload the whole component tree

[@padeen2683]

Exactly at the moment when I wanted to search for "vite tutorial" this showed up. Great timing!

[@rafaelalstent4974]

Thank you so much for making a informative video about a good replacement for CRA. The video is great, we have the theory and the practice. Couldnt ask for more. Thank you c:

[@Salah-YT]

thank u so much Mr Brad it was an amazing video about Vite Thank u so much, and I did %50 the javascript course on ur website so I love it thank u so much for all staff

[@setfbiker]

It always feels special when I see a notif about a new video from you.

[@walidbelfatmi9333]

As expected of Brad, the best explanation. Thank u !

[@Ryguy12543]

excellent tutorial, I followed along without a single issue. thank you so much.

[@krupeshanadkat635]

You just made my life so cheerful ❤ I was in little panic when i heard new react docs got rid of cra & now they have mentioned to use next js by default. CRA official github repository also seems inactive. I did not want to learn Next js right now, but would still love to enjoy react on new projects without setting up things manually. This video really gave me confidence back.

[@marcioandre6469]

🤣🤣Same here

[@rangabharath4253]

Awesome as always Brad. Thanks 😊

[@saranghae3720]

Love the way, how you present things....

[@estherinyang4779]

I wish I could like this a million times. Thank you so much!

[@ward7576]

I am glad I found this clip. I actually didn't enjoy Vite at first. Felt confusing... you know why? With webpack and other solutions got used to the fact that I have to define paths to bundle-able assets, a lot of other boilerplate config beforehand, specific production config and optimizations that you have to set up - I was looking for that in Vite and got super confused when I found nothing like it. This has been the best switch I have done in build tools, ever.

[@yahayaoyinkansola8258]

Vite is really cool, i love the way it is so lightweight, giving the developer more control, and making the dev experience more enjoyable

[@daydreamical]

Thank you so much for this video, was very useful, definitely learned a lot! Thanks!

[@samuelnkrumahbonsu7210]

Thanks for doing staff like this vitejs for some of us. Appreciate that a lot. Am learning bro. Thanks

[@akashddeepchitransh4537]

Amazing video, exactly what I needed.

[@sarahjeannexd]

I LOVE VITE

[@rod6722]

Sweet! I just started using it.

[@raekwonthachef]

Amazing video Brad! so succinct :)

[@arianh]

It was a great video in order to get our hands dirty using Vite 👏🏻💯

[@marouaniAymen]

Thanks for the video, but it'd be better if it shows how to configure ESLint and add rules to the project and also how to add settings for unit tests (vitest or react-testing-library).

[@Ryan-Phillips2.0]

Would be nice with more Vite tutorials. Like setting up navbar and routing.

[@omomer3506]

Excited to learn about vite

[@SameeraSenarathna]

Really helpful content. Thank You.

[@naveenbelandur9952]

Thanks a lot, traversy media, for this

[@wwhill8033]

Excellent stuff, thanks😊

[@marouabenali1321]

Thank you, it was very helpful

[@naturecultureafrica]

Great ! Simple and clear ~ Next time, could you do the same but including, nextjs, node and Mongo DB?

[@Samuels691]

I enjoyed this! Thanks

[@code_with_sheynet]

Thanks very much my mentor

[@sanjaybatak3549]

Did Brad just upload a Crash Course from his hotel room? lol 😂 Thanks Brad. Keep up the good work!!

[@user-jv6xc9sl3l]

Ive been waiting for this!

[@Uthalerebaba-nr4qi]

- [00:00](kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmqxe5eYjrmagJo) 🎥 This video is a Vite crash course, covering its benefits and how it compares to traditional build tools like webpack. - [01:20](kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmqxe5eYjrmagJo) 🧩 Webpack is a traditional module bundler that bundles development source code into a single JavaScript file for production use. - [02:44](kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmqxe5eYjrmagJo) 🚀 Vite, unlike webpack, leverages native ES modules in modern browsers for faster development, avoiding repetitive bundling during code changes. - [03:38](kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmqxe5eYjrmagJo) 📦 Vite uses Rollup for production bundling, making it a fast alternative for development compared to webpack or parcel. - [04:20](kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmqxe5eYjrmagJo) 💡 Vite is gaining popularity as an alternative to create-react-app, offering speed advantages for front-end development. - [07:02](kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmqxe5eYjrmagJo) 🛠 Setting up a Vite project is easy using a simple command like `npm create @latest`. You can choose different templates and frameworks like React or Vue. - [08:24](kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmqxe5eYjrmagJo) 📄 Vite project structure is lightweight and simple, with a minimalistic `package.json` and straightforward configuration. - [12:24](kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmqxe5eYjrmagJo) ♻ Vite offers Hot Module Replacement (HMR), allowing changes in code to be reflected immediately without requiring a full rebuild. - [13:49](kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmqxe5eYjrmagJo) 🔧 You can easily set up environment variables like API URLs in a Vite project. - [14:07](kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmqxe5eYjrmagJo) 🎨 Vite supports SCSS out of the box, making it simple to add and use CSS preprocessors in your project. - [15:05](kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmqxe5eYjrmagJo) 🏗 Building a Vite project for production is straightforward with the `npm run build` command, and you can preview the production build with `npm run preview`. - [16:10](kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmqxe5eYjrmagJo) 📚 Vite offers official and community plugins that extend its functionality, allowing for integration with various tools, libraries, and frameworks.

[@abdellahdamri656]

Hi brad Great Stuff! I just been wandering could we use it to build our own Frontend Framework?

[@khandoor7228]

Thanks Brad!

[@hassaneoutouaya]

Thank you so much !

[@otmanm4095]

Brad never disappoint

[@sasabaid]

@TraversyMedia Loved the video. Can you also share the extensions u used for those autocomplete of imports, vite configs on ur vscode

[@warisaremou8754]

Thanks for the video 😀🙏 How can I update vite version in an existing vite-react app Also can we have ( maybe later ) a video on how to set up pwa with vite-react app ? 🙏

[@evansatompoya7351]

For the environment variables section, when you run tests on your react application, you get cannot use import.meta outside a module even though I define type="module" in my package.json. so what I did was, reversed engineered vite to use the process keyword instead of import.meta. so I can now do something like process.env.API_URL. But the issue with the process keyword is that, in production, I get process is not defined since the process keyword is not accessible in browser environments. How do I get around this

[@user-kn7tc3pp2c]

The idea isn't about getting slow, but taking too much resources. for someone like me just started and not having the best laptop or computer tool like create-react-app is really heavy on my machine and take a lot of resources ram, cpu, ... to run, so the idea is simplicity and using resources as minimum as possible

[@warrenmcinnes987]

Hi Brad. How did your VS code auto-suggest @12:01? Was it co-pilot?

[@elhaambasheerch7058]

"Through out this video It might seem like I'm bashing CRA but actually I'm just talking about vite", COLD.

[@afgone123456]

What theme do you use for vsc?

[@hip04hop85]

Right on time!

[@DragonFruit9k]

Hi, how can we setup testing library and jest, or is there better solution for testing?

[@abhinavv_sharmaa]

What's the theme you are using in the VS code?

[@gururajmoger8649]

Pls do it for angular projects also 👍

[@faizanahmad9850]

Thank u Brad

[@anthonysmith7913]

Thanks a lot!

[@arthurhakobyan7343]

what is the name of the vs code theme and the icon pack that you are using ?? thanks )))

[@user-zr7ve3ut5t]

When working with huge scss files, vite can also get fairly slow. It even crashes sometimes.

[@mahad7966]

Try tailwind instead.

[@thusithanjana]

Thanks!

[@jediampm]

Hi, make a video on your thoughts about the new react docs and the fact they recommend nextjs and others related frameworks. Is this good for beginners?

[@WrestlingTournamentsDotCom]

Vite is awesome. Our build time got so much faster when we switched to it from webpack. Until this video, I've pronounced it to rhyme with "byte", whoops.

[@sicfxmusic]

More like wheat than white 😉

[@lauralong3091]

i love these videos.

[@NiPSpawN]

Hi, how are called the theme you used in that video? Also what extension you use for vs code?

[@faruqoloyede9772]

Wow just saw an article about this vite

[@faizanahmad9850]

Hi, Brad I have enrolled in your MERN stack app course in udemy should I continue with same. Or it will get updated

[@user-iz8xn5mh1j]

It could have been fantastic if you had incorporated testing with Vite as well.

[@ScriptRaccoon]

3:21 I think this is not correct. esbuild is not used to serve ES Modules. As you say in the video, this is what the browser just does for us. esbuild is a module bundler. It is used to pre-bundle depencencies, and also when you run build the Vite application.

[@CandidoZfinda]

Very good

[@code_with_sheynet]

You give me Hope that i will be great in Tech space

[@TraversyMedia]

If I can, you can. As long as you have the drive 💪

[@code_with_sheynet]

I have been learning DevOps this year, But my learning roadmap is getting distracted. What can i control that Brad? Please do a tutorial series on DevOps using Docker.

[@code_with_sheynet]

​@@TraversyMedia I have been learning DevOps this year, But my learning roadmap is getting distracted. How can i control that Brad? Please do a tutorial series on DevOps using Docker.

[@tanmaypanadi1414]

you can look at books and content from Tech world with Nana and Jeff geerling they have some awesome tutorials on KZbin.

[@Cod3rMax]

What are the icons you are using and theme?

[@aaliraza4004]

hi, how we use Context API in Vite thankyou ...

[@abukhalidrifat3994]

I am getting an error while choosing react with JavaScript and swc. The error says "[vite] Internal server error: Bindings not found"

[@hugo-abdou]

is this the introduction of the course or this is the course i was excpecting more lool

[@DeoMaido]

Videos have worked for me but how can I make my website fix on small device's

[@ThomasProsserZurich]

Thanks for this! I like vite precisely for its quickness. The only reason it took me so long to switch over: Dang they need a different logo! This one is just ugly.

[@tigrafale4610]

Cheers

[@QueeeeenZ]

I love Vite, its like million times faster than Webpack

[@labialkosta261]

Hey Brad !! thanks for Uploading, i have a question for you or the audience here, everytime i hear about upgrading a software or a website, they say it's need funding wich mean money, so how upgrading software or a website need money, it's just coding that all. because i recently heard about twitter and he will be upgrading his source code and they say that it's will take a lot of money. So any explanation please ?

[@TraversyMedia]

There are many areas of cost. Developers, project managers, marketers, infrastructure. As applications grow, so do the technology demands.

[@badziobw]

Someone has to design this code and someone has to write it, thats the biggest chunk of cost. Im sure you don't do your work for free either?

[@labialkosta261]

@@badziobw i understand thanks but i talking about upgrading with existing workers, but you already have answered the questions thanks a lot

[@labialkosta261]

@@TraversyMedia thanks brad for the information ℹ

[@tanmaypanadi1414]

As I understand during upgrades there is high possibility of broken code base, bugs , while the existing code is tested and proven to stand the test of time.

[@xcrxwadda8287]

I was using CRA, but lately am using Vite it's fast and never looking back

[@alexanderkomanov4151]

Cool!

[@pav2k]

Please make Solidity crash course!

[@Ahmed-fq3kz]

thanks man

[@paulthomas1052]

Thanks - great demo.

[@techiesakar]

Why npm run preview shows blank white page ?

[@Virtualexist]

Hi people! I am completely new to learning react, I bought a udemy course, and they are teaching with CRA, should I continue or shift to VITE? I do not have enough information to make a decision, lemme know? plesss.

[@crizwiz489]

Can you please create a crash course on react with typescript

[@omomer3506]

So does that mean you can't use vite with certain older browsers

[@vibhavvolvoikar901]

Sir please make one video on Pinia

[@warpmaster7]

will vite work with certain backends like django?

[@LtdJorge]

You mean for the frontend side?

[@mdkawsarislamyeasin4040]

Kindly create a video about how to configure vite

[@scottonanski4173]

But this really doesn't tell us what to do with the mess of truncated code that doesn't run on a host after it's been uploaded.

[@omojjegomosc8211]

Vite is showing a blank page after using routing, anyone has the same problem?

[@PuRpLeIzLeGiTx]

🎉

[@chesterxp508]

GoodJob!

[@jopadjr]

2.2k+...Thanks

[@kasper369]

My brain says to use vite but my heart says to use webpack

[@nivethan_me]

listen to your brain 😉

[@amansaxena4827]

👍

[@luisbrazilva]

I get it. It's fast but why is everyone ignoring the huge security risk of exposing your API connections and key because it serves the JSX files in the network activity tab without masking them or encoding them.

[@kaos092]

All code on the client is exposed no matter what bundler or library / framework you use.

[@shamshad_hussain]

make video on vite react SSR and deploy

[@eliass1862]

but cant minify html...

[@HiddenWorldsLLC]

even the react devs agree that CRA (Create React App) is not the right way to make a project anymore, that is why they removed CRA from the React Docs.

[@AB-kq9xm]

it's still in the docs