Vite+ Beta

I love Vite, Vitest, Oxlint and Oxfmt and look in their direction for most of my new projects! I hope these folks manage to get a bunch of money and can fund the continued development for at least the next decade.

Sure beats opening some ancient project and seeing some mix of Gulp, Grunt, webpack and a bunch of other disjointed stuff (I migrated that one over to also use the newer stack).

it worked for uv so i can imagine a competent team can do the same thing for javascript!

Truly have so much trouble keeping up with the frontend (or JavaScript?) ecosystem. I so miss working in laravel. Wish more jobs paid well to use it.

It’s a great move for Cloudflare to have bought up voidzero.

Doug McIlroy once said: "Make each program do one thing well".

Im tried boss

Can it be used for Node builds or browser-only same as Vite?

Layer on layer on layer on layer on layer.... Web development is just a meme by now

Is there a subscription with this?

I'm just wary about anything with a '+' and I assume there is a subscription attached to it.

Looking at this it doesn't look like it.

I appreciate the effort to bring things together in this but…

> Vite+ will manage your global Node.js runtime and package manager.

What? Why?

You’re really going all-in if you adopt this; and… for what? A bit of cozy tooling around existing standard ways of doing things?

Ok, sure; I like tools, like vite.

…but even for an opinionated tool, this is extraordinarily opinionated. Like next.js

Im skeptical.

The pitch of bringing things together seems strong, but did we go too far here?

Reading reviews of people using this didn't really convince me.

It seems to be running on the coat tails of the vite name, rather than its own merit.

I have removed vite because dev build and reload is noticable slower than just esbuild and browser refresh. Vite does nothing for me that an LLM can not just trivially rebuild in a bespoke manner.

YMMV