VitePress is a static site generator powered by Vite and Vue.js, offering a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects. It allows users to create an HTML website based on text with community-themed support, spending more time writing content than managing infrastructure for a content management system like WordPress. With VitePress, users can have themes, performance, and server-side code execution without requiring additional setup. The project starts from scratch, using Yarn or NPM to initialize the folder, adding VitePress and Vue as dev dependencies, creating sample documents, and setting up navigation capabilities with a sidebar menu and top-level navigation bar. Other notable features include GitHub edit links, custom containers for highlighting specific content, syntax highlighting in code blocks, and deploying the app using `yarn docs:build`. The final step involves adding communication features such as video or messaging capabilities to enhance the static site's functionality.