Yeah but React is swapping major recommendations / styles ever 18 months still. How do you create a react application these days? Not create-react-app apparently?
Vite has been great for the whole web-dev ecosystem, since it's super easy to configure, and very pluggable, so most frameworks are built around it now. That means you can write, e.g. a new CSS preprocessor, and if you make a Vite plugin, it works with (almost) every framework without extra effort
If you wrote your app in NextJS 2 years ago, you would already have to rewrite chunks of it to get it to compile today. These tools are NOT solidified, they are releasing breaking changes at least once a year.
The pace of development is definitely challenging. There’s so many libraries involved in any project that many fall behind in updating their code and application devs get caught in the crossfire when trying to upgrade (and woe be to you if someone added react = “*” somewhere in their peer dependencies).
But aside from all that topic, I have a question about Vite. Does it in any way bind you to using their service for hosting, or can one just as well and easy host such an app on ones own bare metal server?