Vite and the Future of JavaScript Tooling
summary
Vite reaches 15M+ weekly npm downloads after four years and the team raises $4.6M to unify tooling. They build a native toolchain around oxc parser and a new bundler rodn, claiming the parser and transformer are fastest in class and the bundler handles 20,000 modules in 0.63s where Rollup runs out of memory. Prototype shows ~100x speedups for Vue monorepo builds, 90% test-compat with existing tooling, and ongoing work to finish minifier, formatter and syntax lowering.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:43Vite Recap
- 2:33Vite Ecosystem
- 3:42Vite as Shared Infrastructure
- 5:03Vite Tools
- 8:00Vite Limitations
- 13:22Unified Tooling
- 14:27JavaScript Ecosystem
- 20:27Vite Zero
- 22:54OxC
- 29:51Vite Architecture
- 32:41Wrap Up
- 33:11Questions
- 34:56Poll
- 35:59Syntax Lowering
- 36:43Void Zero
- 37:21Commercial NonCommercial
- 38:01Alignment
- 39:19Can Vite be used
- 39:44Business strategy
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