Vite Builds My Project in 2.7s. The Next Ionify Build Takes 50ms. Here's Why.

Vite is fast. I'm not trying to argue otherwise. Its development experience and HMR are a big part of why it became the default choice for a huge part of the frontend ecosystem. But I wanted to test something else: What happens when we repeatedly run production builds on a large project? I benchmarked Vite against Ionify using a real React project...