Vite+ Beta

https://voidzero.dev/posts/announcing-vite-plus-beta

by Erenay09 • 20 days ago

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ivanjermakov5• 20 days ago

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

curtisblaine4• 20 days ago

I'm always curious of the use case when someone proposes Node code bundling. What's the advantage? Obfuscation in SEA?

ivanjermakov5• 20 days ago

Running typescript without compilation is still tricky with plain Node. `vite dev` has amazing DX not available for Node programs. I'm wondering if Vite+ tackles this problem.

afavour2• 20 days ago

In my experience the bundling isn’t really the important aspect (though it also doesn’t harm anything), it’s more just having an ecosystem of plugins for code transpiling, static asset inclusion (e.g. text files) etc and a configuration format folks are already used to.

mnutt• 20 days ago

In cases where startup time matters and you have a slow disk, bundling can drastically reduce the number of filesystem calls you have to make for large dependency graphs.

UnfitFootprint2• 20 days ago

I’ve found if you want interop ts esm and js cjs you need to compile your code - and then `tsc` doesn’t bundle your dependencies for you and outputs incomplete code.

inbx0• 20 days ago

For me, the main benefit is deployment bundle/artifact size reduction. Mostly from dropping unneeded files from node_modules. Many packages include both esm and cjs builds, sources, docs, TS types, etc. stuff that you don’t need in prod. This matters for lambdas, for example, because deployed code size has limits there.

1gr14• 20 days ago

In my case, for my fullstack framework, I used vite on the server to add my own vite plugin, which can cut client-only code from server code. But it was really needed only when I use my framework with Vite. For example, if we use it with a clean bun setup, then I can do it with bun runtime plugins, which also allow me to modify code on the fly and do it really faster than vite. So I want to say that in server js code we may use vite to modify code during the dev/build process, and I have no idea what else we can use vite for in server/cli code

tvbusy• 20 days ago

It uses Vite so the same limitations as Vite. However, I have been using Vite for my NestJS servers without any problem with `vite-plugin-node`. See example at https://github.com/leosuncin/nest-vite-example/blob/master/v...

TheAlexLichter• 20 days ago

I am using Vite+ for CLIs as well, yes. You don't use Vite as dev server then but lint, format, task running and caching is still there!

bdxn• 20 days ago

I'd be interested in seeing this implementation if it's publicly available. Do you have a GitHub link? Thanks!

silverwind• 20 days ago

I think tsdown is much better suited for CLI and library builds. Vite has many web-isms that don't matter for these.

UnfitFootprint2• 20 days ago

Here is my particular incantation for targeting node that is working very well: https://pastebin.com/ynz4B5X0

Essentially you pretend to be a library

colesantiago• 20 days ago

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.

khurs• 20 days ago

Says:

"It is fully open source under the MIT license"

dandaka• 20 days ago

Naming is worrisome!

bouk• 20 days ago

I think that used to be the idea but then they got acqui-hired

gordonhart• 20 days ago

My first thought too. "$name+" is strongly coded now as "subscription service for $name"

TheCoreh• 20 days ago

Yeah, not only the name: they’re also going with various semiotic signs that are strongly associated with a subscription service, including their website design, choice of typography, and even the press release–style copy.

Looks like they have been acquired by Cloudflare, and pivoted to fully open source, but they haven’t really tweaked their messaging to make that fully land with unsuspecting visitors.

It’s kinda like the reverse situation of open source projects that switch to a source available license, but keep the aesthetics of an open source project. Kinda funny!

incrudible3• 20 days ago

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

curtisblaine4• 20 days ago

How do you bundle web workers that import dependencies? iirc the issue in esbuild for that is still open and users are manually building their workers as separate entry points, which is very fragile.

incrudible3• 19 days ago

I build them as separate entry points. And to be clear, esbuild doesn't do everything for me, but the solution is bespoke script, not the whole of something like Vite.

jml782• 20 days ago

I am actually pushing our frontend devs to remove more and more dependencies and leverage LLMs to just write the code instead of all the dumbass packages in hellscape of supply chain attacks via node/npm.

mrbombastic• 20 days ago

You are signing up for another hellscape of unmaintainable slop. Enable package cooldowns and only whitelist internal packages and you are better off than 90%

KronisLV2• 20 days ago

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).

snorremd• 20 days ago

I hope these folks manage to get a bunch of money and can fund the continued development for at least the next decade.

I believe VoidZero has been acquired by Cloudflare [1], so money should not be an issue. Question is if Cloudflare will be willing to continue letting these people work on Vite and Vite+ features that benefit all cloud platforms, not just Cloudflare.

1. https://blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-joins-cloudflare/

GCUMstlyHarmls• 20 days ago

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

KronisLV2• 20 days ago

I mean if I see those in N years, I'll be happier than with the older stack that came before them - the jank levels seem to generally be decreasing with every next attempt to get things right!

dominicrose3• 20 days ago

Making all this (for example) work nicely together can be tricky: Vite, ESLint, Prettier, Typescript and React, especially if it's full stack with SSR.

If you only focus on the front-end and remove Typescript from the equation it becomes easy enough. We'll have to see if Vite+ helps for the more complex cases.

Silhouette• 20 days ago

Making all this (for example) work nicely together can be tricky: Vite, ESLint, Prettier, Typescript and React, especially if it's full stack with SSR.

Although about 98%* of that is because ESLint keeps making breaking changes and getting everything else to work compatibly with ESLint requires 27,573* additional dependencies.

Things I work on have been moving over to Biome recently (mostly these are Vue projects rather than React these days) for formatting and linting and it's so much simpler and avoids all the "What ESLint-related package broke our build process this week?" discussions entirely.

*Some numbers here may be made up. Or they might not.

overflyer• 20 days ago

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

anon7000• 20 days ago

This is just what modern languages have out of box. (Like rust and go.) it’s a true shame that web isn’t actually unified behind a type safe language with a single solid toolchain. It’s a huge pain to manage and I’m curious how much money it’s cost the industry. “Vite+” isn’t a true solution to that. There are many competing toolchains. And no default standardized one.

Quothling2• 20 days ago

I'm not very familiar with Rust, but doesn't cargo pull a lot of external dependencies for most projects? I really like how Go can do everything with just the standard library, but I wasn't aware Rust was similar. For typescript we've moved our stuff to bun. It has it's own risk management perspective compared to node, but at least it's now possible to build web services without having to rely on a bunch of external dependencies. Which in our highly regulated business would require security policies for each dependency explaining the risks, why we accept them and how we mitigate them.

1-more• 20 days ago

a type safe language with a single solid toolchain

Been paying the bills for 5.5 years now writing in one that gets a fair amount of stick for being ~6.7 years with no language version releases (one is planned for this summer though that should make it just under 7). There's one compiler, one standard library, one formatter (with no config options), one linter, and two test runners but one is a rust rewrite of the other one so it's chill. The language being on a timeout has led to all kinds of things like compilers for native (consuming the intermediate representation .o files), fullstack un-forks (no change to syntax of language), fullstack actual forks, really a lot of weird but delightful activity.

It's like me and a few hundred other people, so "unified" is the part that's missing, haha.

papichulo2023• 20 days ago

Pretty much all software is built like that.

nicce4• 20 days ago

I think web development does not need that many layers. Usually there is a clear purpose for each layer. I think most problems in web are self-created.

bel83• 20 days ago

It's all great to leverage until something breaks in a middle layer and you can't reproduce without submitting your entire project in the GitHub issue.

dimitrios1• 20 days ago

Don't be so negative nancy here!

I have been doing "modern web" things since essentially day zero (you kids with your fancy JIT compiled javascript interpreters!)

SvelteKit, and by extension, Vite, has been the single most productive webstack I have ever used. If this offers anything on top of that, I welcome it with open arms.

Far from being a meme!

dalmo3• 20 days ago

vp + sv seems to work very well, when I tried it. And oxfmt supports svelte now too!

drbscl• 20 days ago

I use vp with sveltekit for my personal projects now, and I must say it's a very nice experience.

oever• 20 days ago

Deze vuist op deze vuist. Deze vuist op deze vuist. Deze vuist op deze vuist. En zo klim ik naar boven.

You probably need to see a video or gif to get it.

hagbard_c• 20 days ago

Some barbarian without a grasp of the Dutch language knee-jerked the down-vote button so I'll add a Swedish version which adds an important attribute.

   Imse vimse spindel klättra upp för trå'n.
   Ner faller regnet, spolar spindeln bort.
   Upp stiger solen, torkar bort allt regn.
   Imse vimse spindel klättrar upp igen.

Here's how to interpret this saga of the ever-climbing little spider in the context of web development. It climbs up its tread (klättra upp för trå'n) 'cause that new framework will sure make catching those flies (clicks/jobs/likes/whatevers) easier. And then the rain starts (the CVEs start piling up, the corrupted packages come flooding in) and the hapless spider gets thrown off its web (Pwned!) until the sun comes back and dries away the rain (a new framework, yay, this will solve all problems) upon which the spider climbs up its thread again.

CharlesW2• 20 days ago

Vite+ isn't a layer, it's "just" a high-performance suite of excellent tools that work well together to provide a great DX for developers.

Vite+ can improve and simplify what developers are already doing with ad-hoc collections of tools. Vite is already an industry standard, and Vite+ has a good chance of achieving that status as well.

csomar• 20 days ago

Is everyone project so simple that it can fit in these "vp check" / "vp dev" commands? Like even for my amateurish web app, I have a custom web server with a self-signed certificate with an "/etc/hosts" domain; and for checks I need to do custom checks for GraphQL and a couple of cloned NPM packages.

ronbenton• 20 days ago

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.

dgellow• 20 days ago

you actually don't have to keep up, whatever you were using still works

dominicrose3• 20 days ago

Trust me you don't want to work with Laravel Livewire and Alpine.js, that would still require keeping up and for a less than satisfying result.

TheCapeGreek• 20 days ago

Because VILT is dead and Livewire is now on version 1100?

I've worked on both stacks in the last few years across several clients. Honestly like with anything in tech it seems to mostly fall apart with half-regarded usage of the tools in growing teams that don't care about their quality in favour of "get ticket done".

crumb1e• 20 days ago

I feel ya, we're slowly phasing out our Laravel monolith for python lambdas. I miss those beautiful Laravel 6 days!

donaldstuck• 20 days ago

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

CharlesW2• 20 days ago

Then he'd love this. Like Unix, Vite+ is a collection of programs that do one thing well.

noodletheworld• 20 days ago

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.

lioeters• 20 days ago

Seen this play out again and again: a tool becomes popular, starts incorporating other tools, including mananging language runtime versions. It wants to become the entire platform, to do everything with this one tool. After people get hooked and adapt their workflows to depend on it, inevitably it starts to enshittify. Repeat cycle with new tool.

nicce4• 19 days ago

That is one thing that makes me at least afraid of being too dependent of the uv in Python.

deadbabe• 20 days ago

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

ewy1• 20 days ago

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

alexwebb2• 20 days ago

Surprised to see this is the only uv reference in the comments!

Feels like an obvious comparison to me, and a very welcome development for the JS ecosystem.

uv made me actually _enjoy_ working in Python again.

seanclayton• 20 days ago

a single tool was the enabler of enjoyment? It seems enjoyment is a fleeting thing these days if that's the case

sailorganymede• 20 days ago

I am a big fan of Vite. But I have zero clue what those other tools are. I swear to God, I just put my head down to do some work and all the sudden, frontend tooling has evolved. I wonder if there is a push towards a "boring but works" stack.

beaker52• 20 days ago

This is the latest emerging "boring but works" stack.

mort964• 20 days ago

"Latest emerging boring but works" sounds like an oxymoron.

jstnh• 20 days ago

the other tools are for testing, bundling, linting and formatting. Previously you would use different tools from very different open source projects for these things, with different configurations, update cycles etc. Now it's all covered by one simple toolchain. Vite+ is basically the "boring but works" stack, while also being more performant and with less configuration required.

scrapcode• 20 days ago

I guess I'm just an old man pumping my fist and yelling at the clouds at this point, but I think compartmentalizing every possible aspect of development and then making each one of those as complex as possible lead AI in the bureaucratic deterioration of the trade.

hiccuphippo• 20 days ago

That's what I liked from Bun's proposition. A single binary that just works. Hopefully the others take notice.

christophilus• 20 days ago

Honestly, I hate that Bun is vibe-coded and seems amateurish in many ways, but it’s still an excellent tool.

mmusc2• 20 days ago

I'm currently experimenting with a stack combining assistance, ASP.NET Razor Pages, and htmx, specifically to avoid dealing with the complexities of the modern frontend stack.

AI eliminates a lot of the tedium, grinding tasks, while HTML partials and htmx complement each other perfectly.

Not having to manage frontend framework, SSR states is incredibly liberating. Sprinkle in some vanillla js and redraw specific parts of the page as needed... done

DANmode• 20 days ago

Are you open to opportunities?

bel83• 20 days ago

You're on a good path.

While consulting, I have seen .NET + htmx in production, but it was an internal tool used by thousands of folks (HR system).

The 1ms response times and quick browser rendering due to no JS bloat put a smile on my face.

I have since been planning to give C# backend + htmx frontend a go for a CRUD demo.

bhouston4• 20 days ago

But I have zero clue what those other tools are.

The incorporated tools are actually really amazing:

- vitest, an ultra fast test runner. After using a lot of others, including jest and node's built in one, I love vitest.

- oxlint, replaces eslint but is compatible with its file format and ultra fast, since it isn't written JavaScript. I tried biome, but I found oxlint to have more rules and the eslint compatibility was nice.

- oxfmt, replaces prettier and is faster since it isn't written in JavaScript.

- rolldown, replaces rollup and is compatible with it but it is much faster since it isn't written in JavaScript.

The above are my go-tos in new projects anyhow since they are killer good and fast.

herpdyderp• 20 days ago

I wish Oxfmt supported plugins. Prettier's plugin API is one of the worst APIs I've ever worked with. I'm eager to switch to a different formatter with a better plugin API (and I need plugins).

pier255• 20 days ago

Rolldown is used in Vite (non plus) though.

mort964• 20 days ago

I don't get how a test runner can be "ultra fast". Surely all the time is taken by the tests, not calling the test functions?

Tadpole91812• 20 days ago

Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, tsdown, Oxlint, and Oxfmt

You already use the first, the second you should be using and has existed for years - it's a jest-compatible runner integrated to Vite.

Rolldown is a part of Vite already (since version 8, alongside other implementing tools like lightnincss).

The ox* suite are native replacements for eslint and prettier. The latter has existed for years. Both of them aim to be drop-in compatible soon.

This is a boring stack.

FWIR, prior to the purchase by Vercel (or was it Cloud flare?), Vite+ was going to be a convenient, no fuss, low movement way set up projects that they sold to businesses for funding.

nicce4• 20 days ago

This is a boring stack.

I think the boring stack would skip the need for most of these. That is 5 different tools to write TypeScript in order to get some HTML, CSS and JavaScript for things that are not covered by modern web standards. Not including the frameworks itself which mostly have the same goal.

chrisweekly• 20 days ago

Cloudflare.

CodingJeebus• 20 days ago

A "push" towards a boring stack? That won't happen because the hype cycle trends towards new tools like water down a river. But if you're looking, I can't recommend Rails enough in 2026. Built on web standards, it's quietly pushing the framework forward and is so much less maintenance than modern JS apps.

skybrian• 20 days ago

I’ve bounced off Vite because I don’t see a big advantage over esbuild. (I also use Deno.) What do you find useful?

cadamsdotcom• 20 days ago

Fear not, engineer! Recently some smart folks invented something called BackRub that’ll soon solve all your problems! Soon you’ll be able to find information in even less than time than it takes you to type a comment and out yourself as clueless!

johnfn2• 20 days ago

It's a linter, a code formatter, a tester, and a bundler. What exists in your "boring" stack that's more boring than that?

preommr2• 20 days ago

I wonder if there is a push towards a "boring but works" stack.

Yea, this.

eslint -> oxlint (but in rust, and fast)

prettier -> oxfmt (but in rust, and fast)

webpack -> vite (...I have thoughts; but vite is popular enough so w/e)

rolldown -> tsdown (ts support, but in rast and fast)

jest -> vitest (works with vite)

It's basically taking the last decade of established conventions and supporting ts, rewriting in rust for speed, and making it all interoperable.

ProCodeSoftware• 20 days ago

I use oxfmt and oxlint, the first JS linter I've used. For a long time, I avoided Eslint due to how strict it was, but even though oxlint uses eslint, I've been ok using it. I haven't used vitest before though.

And I think Webpack should be discontinued by now, because Vite has replaced it in every way. Maybe to get other projects to switch, they should make a Webpack-to-Vite migration script.

montroser2• 20 days ago

Vite had five major version in the four years 2022-2026. Version 3 => 4 => 5 => 6 => 7 => 8. Each one of those had breaking changes and required devs to go through a migration. It's too much. And for what? It's not as if it is dramatically better now than it was in version 3.

I can't say I would really look forward to bringing this level of needless churn and constant disruption to the rest of my development toolchain. Anyway, Vite+ is really just wrapping existing tools into an abstracted command-line interface? And so I have more layers of indirection to wade through in order to get the thing to do what I want? So far I am not optimistic about this prospect...

jackdh• 20 days ago

I've followed all the main migrations and I've say they where really quite smooth, can't remember having any major issues and each time it tended to be worth it.

rglover2• 20 days ago

The churn is the product.

enraged_camel• 20 days ago

This makes absolutely zero sense. If you're going to post cynically, at least try to have some sort of coherent point?

c-hendricks4• 20 days ago

Echoing another person, but we did all those major version migrations without any breakage / churn. What were the breaks you ran into?

bhouston4• 20 days ago

Version 3 => 4 => 5 => 6 => 7 => 8.

I did the migrations and they were not horrible. A few breaking changes but they were relatively isolated. And the speed and improvements over these versions had been quite significant.

Tadpole91812• 20 days ago

I went from 4 to 8 in a single step. I had to change 5 lines of config.

Can we please stop the incessant belly-aching over problems that don't exist. I have to question if you even use these tools?

volkk• 20 days ago

also i'm pretty sure claude can one shot this these days. a non-issue.

montroser2• 20 days ago

I'm glad that your trivial migration was trivial.

All this was a big source of churn for plugins and frameworks: https://github.com/vitejs/vite/discussions/16358

pier255• 20 days ago

It's not as if it is dramatically better now than it was in version 3

Adding stuff for SSR was a major improvement.

greatgib• 20 days ago

SSR is a huge pain in the ass. Now it starts to be hard to have all of that do the frontend properly and let good appropriate languages take care of the backend.

Instead of a stupid, broken and leaky node equivalent backend totally interlocked with code of the frontend.

dkdbejwi383• 20 days ago

Toolchain Grand Vitesse

jmull• 20 days ago

Vite pumps out major versions -- that is, breaking changes -- at an incredible rate.

I don't want to be a vite upgrade engineer.

I'll try to pass on this if I can.

adeptima• 20 days ago

Extremely happy user of Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, tsdown, Oxlint, and Oxfmt.

I do have lot of hardforked packages, and dont want to look back. Everything just works.

If you confused by the naming, start from Oxlint https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter Rolldown https://rolldown.rs/

Did very little changes to tsconfig during past 6 months adoption

My day-to-day process - get the new package unless it some antd6, echart or some rendering engine or geo spatial lib, clean up with Claude, strict and unify type system and align it with my vite, tsconfig, oxlint tastes. The result - no need to follow libs bloat and supply chain attack issues. Easy to read, easy to fix.

pier255• 20 days ago

I think they should find a better name for this project. I find it very confusing since it's not really a better Vite.

At the time Void Zero was probably looking to monetize the Vite brand but now that they've been acquired by Cloudflare they don't need to do that anymore.

re-thc2• 20 days ago

I think they should find a better name for this project.

Need another plus? Vite++

kewscombinator• 20 days ago

vite pro max

ericyd• 20 days ago

Its vite... plus a bunch of stuff. Plus can mean different things

ramesh31• 20 days ago

That "+" is making me really nervous. Is this just a naming quirk, or the start of them trying to monetize Vite? If the latter, this is a dark day for frontend dev.

preommr2• 20 days ago

Is this just a naming quirk, or the start of them trying to monetize Vite?

VoidZero got acquired by Cloudflare, which gives out insane amounts of free services, I'd be very surprised if vite is the place they try start pinching pennies.

johnny22• 20 days ago

you missed the monetization phase. It was already attempted before they were acquired by cloudflare.

The goal was to sell a tool that integrated all parts of vite and oxc ecosystem (oxlint, oxfmt, vite, vitest, etc) in one place.

That stopped right before official cloudflare acquisition announcement.

jadbox• 20 days ago

Can I use Astro with this?

rk06• 20 days ago

yes, vite+ has full support of vite based tools and astro is built on vite.

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