Best of 2021

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2021. 497 posts.

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Why we switched from Webpack to Vite

At Replit, our mission is to make programming more accessible. We provide people with free compute in the cloud so that they can build apps on any device. Among the most popular ways to create apps on the web today is React. Historically, however, React tooling has been slow on Replit. While the JavaScript ecosystem…