[Framework]: Vike

Name

Vike

Homepage

vike.dev

Install instructions

vike.dev/new => select "React" => scaffolds a Vike app that uses vike-react
npm create vike-core@latest => scaffolds a Vike app that uses a bespoke React integration

Is your framework open source?

Yes

Well maintained

• Bugs are quickly fixed
• Feature requests are triaged quickly (either put on the roadmap with prioritization, declined, or quickly implemented)
• CHANGELOG.md
• Vike team

Active community

• GitHub Discussions
• Discord

Clear onboarding

Scaffold new Vike app

Ecosystem compatibility

Vike provides unmatched flexibility regarding ecosystem integration, see Developer Experience section below.

Self-hosting option

All deployment strategies:

• Static host (using pre-rendering)
• Self-hosting
• Serverless/edge deployment (Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, ...)
• ISR (via vite-plugin-vercel)

Users can choose between zero-config integration (via Universal Deploy), or manual deployment/server integration (via renderPage()).

Developer Experience

Data fetching:

• Next-gen RPC via Telefunc (we're the authors of Telefunc)
  • React RFC #275: Stable useId() across Suspense for element-scoped caching
  • SvelteKit's RPC design was inspired by Telefunc
• As well as "old school" page-level data fetching via +data (which is sufficient for SSG).

All render modes:

• SSR
• Pre-rendering aka SSG. (First-class support, see +prerender.)
• SPA/MPA. (First-class support, e.g. client-only data fetching which is a common blocker with other frameworks.)

Polished details:

• Automatic frontend deployment synchronization
• Low-level i18n API, for full control over i18n
• Route Functions
• Route Guards
• Advanced Base URL support (Base URL for static assets != Base URL for the SSR server)
• URL rewriting
• User can seemlessly use hitory.pushState()
• Opt-in support for legacy browsers
• Zero-config interop, e.g. Tauri
• Infinite loop guards
• Errors & warnings meticulously crafted to be helpful
• React component stack injected into stack trace
• ...

Flexibility & Stability

Vike's main USPs are flexibility and stability.

By design:

• Vike is an agnostic core (and therefore stable), with low-level hooks that can support an unprecedented amount of stacks, tools, and new paradigms.
• Large suite of hooks.

By prioritization, for example:

• We treat blockers with high priority. (When users report they cannot achieve something, we care a ton to unblock them.)
• We enable users to access internals as temporary escape hatch.

[!NOTE]
Vike caters to companies that need extra flexibility and/or stability, see Vike use cases.

User Experience

Fast UIs:

• Progressive enhancement via HTML Streaming
• The developer has precise control over data lifecycle (e.g. +onCreateGlobalContext and +onCreatePageContext) for performance maximization.
• Prefetching
• Preloading
• Waterfall detection

Compatible with our future vision for React

Full support for React 19's HTML Streaming:

• Both Node.js and Web Streams
• Progressive Rendering
• Powered by react-streaming (for minimal boilerplate & config, making vike-react and vike-react-rsc a lot smaller and simpler)
• No known issues (both Vike's side and react-streaming's side)

Vite recently landed support for Server Components (@vitejs/plugin-rsc). Vike has experimental Server Components support via vike-react-rsc.

[!NOTE]
See also:

• Our design for progressive Server Components adoption
• React RFC #219: injectToStream (important for wide adoption of React 19's HTML Streaming)
• We were RSC early adopters

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