⚡Vite 5 Released: Builds 2–11% Faster
4 min readNov 29, 2023
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…