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💻 DevRel @voidzero.dev
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💚 @nuxt.com team
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Highly disagree. @vite.dev is in no way a 2nd grad product (but feel free to prove me wrong)!

The fun part of Vite plus is that it is *not* pushing commercial interests.

Free for the community, paid for working startups and big companies, as the website states
October 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Heck yeah! The @nitro.build v3 beta is out now. And Nitro is now just a @vite.dev plugin 👀

Kudos to all contributors, @unjs.io, and @pi0.io 🙌🏻
October 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Building performant tools doesn't happen by accident. They need a strong foundation!

@rolldown.rs and @vite.dev 8 are powered by Oxc for that reason

We've evaluated all previous PRs that went into the Oxidation compiler, 290 of them improving performance

This is what foundational work looks like!
September 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Wow, @julienhuang-dev.bsky.social does a 300 IQ move and is preparing his library for @nuxt.com 6 👀

(Photo taken at @pragvue.com)
September 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
tsgolint mentioned during @jakebailey.dev's talk about ts-go at @squiggleconf.com

If you didn't try it out, time to jump into type-aware linting with Oxlint. 👀

oxc.rs/docs/guide/u...
September 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Let's get @squiggleconf.com 2025 started 👏🏻
September 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Kicking off the @voidzero.dev offsite!

The whole team for the first time in a single room 👀🙌🏻
September 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
As an example (of course I don't participate in the raffle)!

(1) plain Oxlint in a bigger project
(2) With type-aware linting in the @nuxt.com repo 👀
August 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
tsup is not actively maintained anymore 👀

With >9M NPM monthly downloads and >10k GitHub stars, tsup is undeniably a popular choice for bundling. Unfortunately, it is not under active maintenance anymore.

Thanks to @egoist.dev & contributors for all the work on tsup 🙏🏻
August 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
What a milestone!

For the first time in history, weekly NPM downloads for @vite.dev surpassed Webpack's weekly download numbers.
July 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Did you know that @rolldown.rs supports converting your top-level variables to var?
It seems weird at first, but is actually helpful - and your output is still ESM and modern code!

The transform can improve perf due to avoiding "temporal dead zone" checks of VMs that can cause slowdowns up to 1000%
July 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Wow! @getoutline.bsky.social moved to the @rolldown.rs-based @vite.dev package and achieved **22.3x faster builds**.

Their vite-related build time went down from 47.27s to just 2.12s seconds, meaning installing deps will even take longer than the actual build 🎉

The highest speedup I've seen so far
July 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Did you know that Rolldown-Vite supports tsconfig path resolution out of the box? Use the path resolutions defined in your tsconfig by setting `resolve.tsconfigPaths`.

The only requirement? You must use native plugins, either only the resolver or all

No extra plugin needed 🙌
July 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The @rolldown.rs powered @vite.js version is out for a while, giving 2~16x build speed improvements!

If you ever wondered how to switch, then no worries. I show you how in less than 90 seconds!

Also, one more goodie for React users (switching to the Oxc-based Vite plugin)
June 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Coming back from vacation, this is exactly the type of motivation notification I need 🙈🤣
June 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
ICYMI: You can easily get type-safe routes *and* file-system-based routing in your plain @vuejs.org (and also @nuxt.com) application with the latest package from @esm.dev

I've shown how in my latest video! 👇
June 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
During @danielroe.dev's talk at @madvue.es he is (once again!) shouting out @e18e.dev as great initiative for the whole web dev ecosystem 🙌🏻
May 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
At @madvue.es, @esm.dev is kicking it off by talking about Pinia Colada and server state.

As a practical demo, he is using the Atidone app by @atinux.com (made with @nuxt.com)
May 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
42 deps (see graph) a the moment, ~half of them because of rolldown-plugin-dts. That will change as soon as it is written in rust too and integrated!

The rest should be covering CLI, configuration, globbing etc. etc. which is reasonable IMO.
May 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
During the keynote of @vueconf.us, @danielroe.dev releases `fontless` - a @vite.dev plugin to apply "magical plug-and-play font optimization".
Created in collab with the @qwik.dev team

This is basically the @nuxt.com fonts module, but for all Vite-based apps 🤯
May 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Happy to see Mercedes Benz adopting modern tooling such as @rolldown.rs and Oxc in their workflow, as well as going the extra mile and sharing their results!

Up to 64% CI pipeline time reduction is impressive 👀

And more per improvements are yet to come 🤯

www.mercedes-benz.io/blog/2025-05...
May 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Received a lovely care package from @jacobandrewsky.bsky.social with some tasty Polish treats, a custom Lego figure and a photo from us back at Vue.js Live (in London).

Thank you so much buddy 💚

PS: You'd never guess the caption Jakub wrote on the back of it 👀
May 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
ICYMI: GitLab saw their memory consumption reduced by 100x by using the @rolldown.rs powered @vite.dev version (in addition to a 2.6x speedup) 🤯
April 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Caption this 👀
April 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
🎉 Excited to announce that I'm joining VoidZero as DevRel!

As I was following the project from early on, I couldn't say no to the chance when @evanyou.me reached out.

I can't wait to share all the incredible things lined up for @rolldown.rs, OXC, @vite.dev, and @vitest.dev 👀
March 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM