Does Volt give me a SvelteKit-esque UI development workflow?

[Connor56]

I've read the introduction guides for Volt, but I still can't figure out what the purpose of the tool is.

There are two options I see:

1. It simplifies the minification and build process of Shopify themes. But to view changes, you still need to use shopify theme dev.

2. It's supposed to load the UI locally and let you develop your site quickly with hot reloading without having to push code via shopify theme dev.

As shopify theme dev is a serious bottleneck in the theme development loop, it would be good to state clearly if the intent of the plugin is option 1 or 2.

I want the answer to be option 2, but when I attempt to visit the vite dev server, I see this:

So I'm guessing the answer is actually option 1.