Vite is amazing, I think we can all agree on that statement. But what is Vite actually!? Why is it so great, faster than webpack and the "de-facto standard of the web" already?

Alex is joined by Vite Core Team member Matias Capeletto, better known as Patak, to talk about all these questions.

Learn about the future of Vite, how it uses two bundlers under the hood and why almost every framework adopted it. Enjoy the episode!

Enjoy the episode!

Our Guest

Matias "Patak" Capeletto

• Vite
• Website
• Bluesky

Chapters

• (00:00) - Chapter 1
• (00:00) - Welcome to DejaVue
• (52:00) - How did you get into programming?
• (05:19) - Working on Open Source Full Time
• (08:16) - What is Vite?
• (18:48) - Why is Vite so fast?
• (22:19) - Rollup and ESBuild?
• (26:22) - VoidZero and Rolldown
• (34:08) - The Scope of Vite
• (36:27) - Vite Environment API
• (45:49) - Converging Frameworks
• (50:51) - Funding in Open Source
• (01:04:24) - React as "the last framework"?
• (01:10:18) - CRA Deprecation
• (01:24:41) - Where can people follow you?
• (01:26:09) - Last Words

Links and Resources

• Rolldown
• Snowpack
• rolldown/vite
• vinxi
• unplugin
• vite node
• Miniflare
• All About VoidZero
• DejaVue #044 - Our Predictions for Vue and Nuxt in 2025 (with Daniel Roe)
• Sunsetting Create React App
• CRA PR
• create-tsrouter-app

Your Hosts

Alexander Lichter

• Bluesky
• YouTube
• Website

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