A deep-dive on Vite (JS Party #212)

Amal and Nick load up on coffee for a not-so-vite (lame joke!) conversation with Evan You all about Vite – a batteries included next-generation frontend tooling library. Vite continues to push the ecosystem forward with even stronger defaults, super speedy local development workflows, and a highly extensible universal plugin API. Need we say more?!

Amal and Nick load up on coffee for a not-so-vite (lame joke!) conversation with Evan You all about Vite – a batteries included next-generation frontend tooling library. Vite continues to push the ecosystem forward with even stronger defaults, super speedy local development workflows, and a highly extensible universal plugin API. Need we say more?!

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Featuring:

Evan You – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAmal Hussein – Twitter, GitHubNick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Vite
Node SSR | Code source for Vite’s Rich Harris inspired in memory node module graph
Webpack Hardsource Plugin | Inspiration & spec author for Webpack 4’s Perf improvements
SWC (Speedy Web Compiler)
ESBuild
vite plugin legacy
Rust
Go
Parcel
Jest
Vitest
Partytown
Rollup
Svelte
SvelteKit
hydrogen
Snowpack
Astro
Vite SSR
es-module-lexer
MagicString (Rust)
Recent JS Party episode on Svelte with Rich Harris

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!