Connecting Craft CMS and Vite

Vite was built for JavaScript appli­ca­tions, not a PHP appli­ca­tion like Craft CMS. Because of that, we have to con­nect Vite and Craft CMS using the Craft Vite plu­g­in by NyStudio107 (who is also the co-instruc­tor of this course!).

With­out the Craft Vite plu­g­in, we would need to man­u­al­ly man­age Vite’s asset URLs, con­di­tion­al­ly load the dev serv­er, and ensure prop­er cache bust­ing for pro­duc­tion builds. The plu­g­in sim­pli­fies this process, mak­ing it eas­i­er to work with mod­ern front-end tools in a Craft CMS environment.