A deep-dive on Vite

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

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 – Website, GitHub, X
• Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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!