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Retool Blog | How Retool migrated to ViteJS

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Retool is the best software development solution for building mission-critical business apps. Frontend development moves fast, and we invest heavily in our internal tech stack to provide the best experience for our builders. Keeping our internal tech stack on the cutting edge also enables our own engineering team to be as productive and creative as possible. To that end, we recently completed a large-scale migration to ViteJS as our core frontend development library and bundler. ViteJS is a relatively new technology, but it’s quickly risen in popularity and has been voted the best frontend library in the State of JavaScript two years in a row (2023 and 2024). The philosophy and motivations behind the ViteJS project are nicely presented in the “Why ViteJS” article. Web development hasn’t felt this fast and responsive since the days before NodeJS+NPM introduced slow compilation steps into the development flow. We’d been building with Webpack since Retool was founded. We still think Webpa

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