Vite's command-line interface for starting the dev server, building for production, and previewing builds.
Field note
Provides the vite, vite build, vite optimize, and vite preview commands with options for host, port, config, base, mode, and output.
Capabilities
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Ways to use it
javascript / vite
Product features
Builds for production.
vite build builds the production version.
-c, --config <file> uses a specified config file.
vite (aliases vite dev, vite serve) starts the Vite dev server in the current directory.
Starts the Vite dev server in the current directory; vite dev and vite serve are aliases.
Pre-bundles dependencies. Deprecated: pre-bundling runs automatically.
vite optimize pre-bundles dependencies; deprecated as pre-bundling runs automatically.
Locally preview the production build.
vite preview locally previews the build output; not intended as a production server.
Builds for production.
Builds for production, with options like --target, --outDir, --ssr, --sourcemap and --minify.
Starts the Vite dev server in the current directory; dev and serve are aliases.
Starts the Vite dev server in the current directory; vite dev and vite serve are aliases.
Pre-bundles dependencies; deprecated as pre-bundling runs automatically.
Pre-bundles dependencies. Deprecated: the pre-bundle process runs automatically.
Locally previews the production build; not recommended as a production server.
Locally previews the production build; not designed to be used as a production server.