Use when creating a new Vite project, understanding Vite internals, or reasoning about dev vs production behavior. Prevents confusing Vite's native ESM dev server with traditional bundler-based dev servers and misunderstanding the two-mode architecture. Covers dev server vs build pipeline, native ES
Use when creating a new Vite project, understanding Vite internals, or reasoning about dev vs production behavior. Prevents confusing Vite's native ESM dev server with traditional bundler-based dev servers and misunderstanding the two-mode architecture. Covers dev server vs build pipeline, native ESM serving, dependency pre-bundling, module graph, internal tools evolution (esbuild to Oxc, Rollup t