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by KronisLV 30 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).

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> 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/

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.

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.

Lots of breaking changes but I like where they landed, the config file is now clearly an mjs, no longer a hidden file, allows JSX without a plugin. I reckon the best way to upgrade is to generate a new project that has everything configured and copy that and stay close to defaults unless there's a good reason not to.
> 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).
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!