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Xevi on Oct 14, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Parcel v2

Vite only uses Rollup for the production build step. During development it uses ESBuild for pre-bundling, and then serves everything as native ESM, that's why it's so fast. They might get rid of Rollup in the future if ESBuild gains more features.

FinalBriefing on Oct 24, 2021 [–]

oh, cool! I didn't realize that. Then yea, I am very impressed by esbuild's performance.

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