Series
The build pipeline
What happens to a module between the editor and the browser — resolution, transform, pre-bundling — and why development and production disagree.
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- №01
Tooling and buildWhat Actually Happens When Vite Serves a Module
A walk through one request to a Vite dev server: resolution, the transform pipeline, import rewriting, pre-bundling, and why production differs.
- №02
Tooling and buildVite 8 Ships One Bundler, Not One Pipeline
Vite 7 depends on esbuild and Rollup; Vite 8 on neither. Serving one module from both majors shows what the swap to Rolldown changed and what it left alone.