Vite · cohorts · performance
Bundler swap week: field notes
Ibrahim Mensah ·
Cold start times dropped enough that mentors could run twice as many live diff reviews. Students noticed fewer 'wait for rebuild' gaps during office hours.
We kept a webpack branch for one legacy exercise so learners still touch older config. The comparison makes the mental model of dev vs prod transforms stick faster.
Documentation now leads with Vite env variables and falls back to webpack only in an appendix. Support tickets about env mismatches fell after that reorder.