Comment by solardev

IMO Vite isn't better or worse, it just has a different use case. Next has more bolts included (like robust SSR + fetching/caching strategies, routing, middleware, etc.)

If you're just building a SPA, using Next is overkill (and will often get in the way, actually). But for some other websites, having all of that included and supported by a single source/vendor is very valuable and beats trying to Frankenstein a project out of 30 other libs like the bad old initial days of React.

For simpler or client-only sites, Vite is actually wonderful. But it's not automatically the best choice for every project.