Describe the problem that you experienced

This part of documentation https://angular.dev/tools/cli/serve#proxying-to-a-backend-server is incomplete or maybe incorrect. It indicates that Webpack server is used for development and has links to Webpack documentation. However, newer versions of angular seem to be using Vite together with esbuild target. Because of this our proxy config did not work since we used Webpack specific syntax (namely bare '*'). Only after discovering it is actually using Vite we could fix the problem, but lost almost half a day on it. As such, it would be very helpful to explain that Vite is used with esbuild (which is anyway the default for new projects) and provide links to its proxy config.

Enter the URL of the topic with the problem

https://angular.dev/tools/cli/serve#proxying-to-a-backend-server

Describe what you were looking for in the documentation

Trying to figure out why proxying is not working.

Describe the actions that led you to experience the problem

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Describe what you want to experience that would fix the problem

Update the documentation with explanation that it is using Vite along with appropriate links to its proxy documentation

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