Creating a React App with Vite: A Fast and Efficient Development Experience




Let’s create a React app using Vite, a build tool that aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects. Here are the steps:

Step 1 : Install Node.js: If you haven’t already, make sure you have Node.js installed. You can download it from the official website.

Step 2 : Open Visual Studio Code and go to terminal. Scaffold Your First Vite Project: Open your terminal and run the following command to create a new React app with Vite:

npm create vite@latest hello-world.

Replace hello-world with the desired name for your project. This command will generate a new React app with all the necessary configuration and dependencies set up for you.

Step 3 : Select a framework: select the React framework here using the downward arrow key.

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Step 4 : Select Variant: choose any variant of your choice using the downward arrow key, i.e: choose JavaScript

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Step 5 : Now, switch to hello-world directory and Install Dependencies

cd hello-world
npm install.
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Step 6 : Start Server, make sure check your port no on the terminal it may be different for you system. http://localhost:5173/

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Next, open your browser and visit http://localhost:5173/. The default React project will be running on port 5173:

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