They do fundamentally the same things but with very different approaches and tradeoffs.
Webpack and Vite are very different approaches to the same problem with different tradeoffs[0][1]
[0]: namely, webpack and its inevitable successor rspack, are way more flexible and arguably powerful but at the cost of higher complexity and more proprietary features like the webpack/rspack specific runtime. Superior in asset handling though, in many respects, and the high level of optimizations you make once you hit a certain complexity threshold is greater than what Vite/Rolluo has currently without extensive custom plugins
[1]: Vite or Rollup is most likely what most projects need. I’d recommend always starting there, as most of the advanced and flexible features of webpack/rspack are very much not what most need
They do fundamentally the same things but with very different approaches and tradeoffs.
Webpack and Vite are very different approaches to the same problem with different tradeoffs[0][1]
[0]: namely, webpack and its inevitable successor rspack, are way more flexible and arguably powerful but at the cost of higher complexity and more proprietary features like the webpack/rspack specific runtime. Superior in asset handling though, in many respects, and the high level of optimizations you make once you hit a certain complexity threshold is greater than what Vite/Rolluo has currently without extensive custom plugins
[1]: Vite or Rollup is most likely what most projects need. I’d recommend always starting there, as most of the advanced and flexible features of webpack/rspack are very much not what most need