Frontend dev here. Vite is amazing. It doesn't take long to get what it does if you try it out (you can avoid reading about it that way).
I won't bother summarizing what it does, the website literally covers it. Reading really became superpower in this day and age.
I do wonder if other industries act like this to their specialties. E.g. do carpenters complain about the tools that boat builders use? Do butchers complain about bakers having to many tools. Do cobblers complain about marketing materials for tools used exclusively by dress-makers? I doubt it.
Most front end devs I talk to don’t complain about the things commenters here are talking about. Most of us—that I know of—are happy with the tools we use, are fine with the evolving landscape, and are able to read through marketing materials of most of the tools we are picking. Honestly, if you are not a front end developer, why do you care about this?
It’s funny because I’m a frontend dev and I can do the job of a backend dev better than most backend devs. Yet I don’t go into every thread about Python and complain about what a horrible experience it is to install and manage.
Programming is programming.
Love your comment :)
This is actually my main complaint. I read everything on the landing page and Getting Started page and still have literally zero idea what Vite does.
Well, good criticism is not negativity, but I'd argue it is positivity.
Instead, I'm about 100 comments down and so far all I can see is endless repetition of the same nitpicking complaint that the landing page is not good. The landing page!
If you use this tool you'll spend about 5 minutes on the landing page and potentially hundreds or thousands of hours in the code, API, and docs. So who cares about the damn landing page?
I want discussion of the actual tool, that's what I come to HN for. There doesn't appear to be much of that happening here, unfortunately.
If there was a single comment thread somewhere criticizing the landing page that would be fine, it's a valid complaint. But if pretty much all the top comments are exclusively doing that, or pointing out how pointless a criticism that is (like this one) then this discussion is a failure.
EDIT: scrolling further down I appear to have hit the "oh no frontend dev is so complicated, poor me" section of the discussion. I'm gonna keep digging, wish me luck!
What's positive about that? A complaint with proposed action is what can be considered positive, but most complaints here were "I am not frontend dev, I clicked the link, I don't understand anything. They need to telepathically understand what I want and make the page that's to my liking".
It's just pseudointellectuals trying to pose as experts in a field they're not even working in. And here we are, a bunch of bottom feeders arguing over a landing page in year 2022. Oh, how entitled have we become. This situation is absolutely disgusting and not positive.