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Vite is a next-generation frontend build tool that has replaced Webpack as the industry standard for modern web development. Its name comes from the French word for "quick," and it lives up to the title by offering a lightning-fast development server. Its unique power is "Hot Module Replacement" (HMR) that stays instant regardless of how large your app grows. Unlike older tools that have to rebuild the entire application every time you save a file, Vite only updates the specific module that changed. For engineering teams, this speed is transformative. It eliminates the seconds (or minutes) of waiting time between writing code and seeing the result on screen, keeping developers in the "flow state" and drastically improving daily productivity across the entire frontend workflow.