Reducing React Dev Server to 213ms -- From Create React App to Vite v3 Migration

Published: 2022-10-18

Developer experience is important. Having a fast and reliable development and build solution is important as the code that is written and how it performs. Recently, I saw a significant slow-down in a react app that its development and build system was based on the latest CRA package (create react app/react-script). I improved the developer experience in both development and build for production from afew seconds to a mere 213ms from 3277ms (dev server) --  That's an improvement of 95% in server uptime. In this article, I share my steps for migrating CRA (create react app) to use Vite while highlighting the benefits.

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