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webpack vs vite on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, webpack leads webpack vs vite with 12,507 mentions to vite’s 3,756, peaking in Oct 2017.

Mention-over-time for webpack vs vite, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

webpack12,507 mentions, peak Oct 2017vite3,756 mentions, peak Jun 2022
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How the lead changed hands

Bundler changing of the guard: Webpack owns the build step 2015–20, then Vite arrives and overtakes it from 2022 on.

The stories behind each line

Top “webpack” stories
  1. Turbopack, the successor to Webpack 626 points · 2022
  2. Introducing Webpack Dashboard 441 points · 2016
  3. Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible with Vue and Webpack 374 points · 2017
  4. Why we switched from Webpack to Vite 355 points · 2021
Top “vite” stories
  1. Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first 506 points · 2024
  2. Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling 483 points · 2022
  3. Is Turbopack really 10x faster than Vite? 364 points · 2022
  4. Why we switched from Webpack to Vite 355 points · 2021

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