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Beginner's Guide to Astro

What is Vite?

The build tool that runs underneath Astro.

Vite starts the dev server, bundles your code, and handles plugins. You rarely deal with it directly, but you'll see its name in error messages and in astro.config.mjs when you add tools like Tailwind.

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Try "blog", "deploy" or "EmDash".