Vite, Vue 3, and Laravel 11: The Ultimate Zero-Config Local Dev Stack

Laravel 11 paired with Vue 3 and Vite delivers near-instant Hot Module Replacement via native ES modules, eliminating the slow Webpack/Laravel Mix build cycle. Running both the PHP backend and Vite dev server locally introduces CORS and port conflict issues, and using Docker/Laravel Sail to solve them degrades the very performance Vite promises. The article advocates a native, zero-config approach where backend and frontend share the same local domain namespace without container overhead.