vite is a build tool that aims to provide faster and learner development experience for modern web projects.
NPM, which stands for 'Node Package Manager', is a package manager and software registry primarily used with the node.js runtime environment.
To set up a React project, you can use the vite tool for basic setup. You can create a folder in your device and open it in the command prompt or create a folder directly in VS Code and open the terminal.
To create the project dependencies, you can use the command 'npm create vite@latest' in the terminal and follow the setup process.