https://startaitools.com/tags/vite/Recent content in Vite on Start AI Tools - Presented by Intent SolutionsHugoen-USIntent Solutions. All rights reserved.Thu, 28 May 2026 07:17:16 -0600https://startaitools.com/posts/vite-dev-server-in-production-the-871-byte-tell/Wed, 27 May 2026 08:00:00 -0500https://startaitools.com/posts/vite-dev-server-in-production-the-871-byte-tell/<h2 id="the-871-byte-tell">The 871-byte tell</h2> <p>A user reported scorecardecho.com was slow and &ldquo;had to be refreshed&rdquo; to render. The site fronts a React SPA behind Caddy, behind Docker Compose, behind a single VPS — a stack that had been &ldquo;fine&rdquo; for months. One <code>curl -s https://scorecardecho.com/ | head -40</code> answered the ticket in under a minute. The HTML shell was 871 bytes. It contained <code>&lt;script type=&quot;module&quot; src=&quot;/@vite/client&quot;&gt;</code>, <code>/@react-refresh</code>, and a literal <code>src=&quot;/src/main.tsx&quot;</code> reference. That output is not a production response. That is the Vite dev server, exposed straight to the public internet, transpiling raw TypeScript per-request for every visitor.</p>