Vite
Fast frontend tooling — development reloads in milliseconds, not seconds.
Every modern web application has "frontend assets" — CSS files, JavaScript files, images, fonts. Before a browser can load them efficiently, these files need to be processed: stylesheets need to be compiled, JavaScript needs to be bundled, and everything needs to be minified for production.
Vite is the tool that handles all of that. In development, it serves files almost instantly using a native browser feature — changes you make to CSS or JavaScript appear in the browser in milliseconds, not the seconds older tools required. In production, it produces compact, optimized bundles that load as fast as possible.
Since Laravel 9, Vite has shipped as the default build tool for every new Laravel project. You don't think about it much — it just works — but it's responsible for the speed and polish of the front end.
Changes appear in the browser almost instantly during development. No waiting for a full rebuild every time a CSS rule changes.
Production builds are automatically split, minified, and cache-busted — resulting in fast page loads and efficient browser caching.
TypeScript, CSS preprocessors, PostCSS, JSX — Vite handles all modern frontend languages and compiles them down to what browsers understand.
Laravel's official Vite integration handles asset versioning, hot module replacement, and manifest generation with zero configuration.