⚡Vite 5 Released: Builds 2–11% Faster

The new Vite release improves the build time for the sake of all CI/CD operations!

Vite 5 was just released. It begs a question if it’s faster than Vite 4. As we can read:

On top of Rollup 4’s build performance improvements (…)

Let’s see if Rollup 4 really improves build time in Vite 5!

Initial Experience

Install

I’ve created Vite 5 and Vite 4 Vue projects:

pnpm create vite@4.4.1 vite4.4.1 --template vue
pnpm create vite@5.0.0 vite5.0.0 --template vue

And installed dependencies.

For Vite 4.4.1 it took 5.7s, for Vite 5: 13.7s.

Start

Starting Vite 4 took 2891ms:

$ pnpm dev

> vite4.4.1@0.0.0 dev C:\Users\TOMEK\Documents\Biznes\Moje\VSCode\Vite\Vite 4\vite4.4.1
> vite

Port 5173 is in use, trying another one...

  VITE v4.4.5  ready in 2189 ms

  ➜  Local:   http://127.0.0.1:5174/
  ➜  Network: use --host to expose
  ➜  press h to show help

Next starts: 678ms, 702ms, 711ms.

Starting Vite 5 took 1735ms:

$ pnpm dev

> vite5.0.0@0.0.0 dev…