Show HN: Vlite – Lite demo server, inspired by Vite (opens in new tab)

In addition to a sentence about what this solves relative to Vite, another sentence saying what Vite is would also be helpful to those of us who have never heard of Vite. A link to https://vitejs.dev/ would probably suffice, though even that site doesn't seem to explain much until you follow some links.

I'm very probably not the target audience for this, but the README should have enough information to tell me I'm not the target audience.

(From that site: "Vite (French word for "quick", pronounced /vit/, like "veet") is a build tool that aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects.")

The blog post mentions that using vite requires installing a dev env via npm, and that wasn't straightforward enough for the authors use case.

I still don't understand though, because vlite is also installed via npm, as would react et. al. How is vlite easier? One less (very small) config file?

Was hoping for a second it was a challenger to the the NextJS front-end monopoly. As I understand it enables you to start Vite development without setting up a server/TS while keeping it lightweight.