After another action-packed month, here’s my reflection on the latest news and events from the ever-evolving world of Vue, Nuxt, Vite, and their awesome open-source ecosystems.
In the September issue, I marked upcoming ViteConf in Amsterdam to be a source of interesting news. And sure it was! The biggest announcement made there by Evan You himself was Vite+. It is a new all-in-one web development tool build around Vite and the new Oxc toolchain. Building new apps will be even easier and faster than before.
Some eyebrows were raised about the announced pricing model, because Vite+ is meant to be paid tool for enterprises, which usually sparks concerns and displeasure among open-source community. I refuse to be offended. From my point of view - all the founding bricks WILL remain open-sourced as we are used to and even Vite+ will be for free unless you want to make big commercial profit from it. Which I see totally fair. The harsh reality is, that developing open source is often about giving to others everything and get little to nothing (except of a lot of hate) back. The team in void(0) has already done so much for us, that even if they stop developing open source completely, we should be grateful. Instead, they keep giving the community more and more, and establishing stable source of income will only help them doing it better. Btw. meanwhile the organisation donated nearly $50K to other open-source projects. So I really don't see a problem there and I am looking forward for the project future. Vite+ should be finished next year, and I am interested to see the outcome.
Speaking of the updates, one of the shiny new (and blazing fast) tools from the Oxc.rs family, the new Rust linter Oxlint now gets support for JavaScript plugins. This is more important that it may seem, because what is really means is that most of the current tools around ESLint will just continue to work, even if you switch to Oxlint. The effort required for that should be negligible. And the result will be spared hours as the new Rust-based linting is much much faster. To be completely honest with you, the job is not completely done yet, but the path has been set, and the tool will only get better.
Also, the solution for testing your webapps is getting better. After a series of 19 beta versions spreading from June 20th, Vitest 4.0 is finally out. Key highlights of the new major version include finalized browser mode, built-in visual regression testing, better support for debugging or couple of new API methods.
In other news, Tailwind CSS had birthday on October 5th! It is already (or "just"?) 10 years since this project started. I remember back then Bootstrap was "The Way" of doing websites. I didn't like it much. In fact, I didn't liked Tailwind when I first saw it. But it took me like a day. And since then, I don't want to use anything else. Despite I am trying to follow the events, I am no skilled CSS engineer capable of handling all the responsivity and other quirks myself. But with Tailwind CSS I can do a lot very quickly without too much effort. And this is awesome.
Last but not least, earlier today a new version of Nuxt was released - in 4.2.0, Nuxt team delivers better control over cancelling data fetching with new AbortController or improved DevEx through more detailed error info in dev mode. And of course, a lot of other improvements and fixes.
I am pretty sure I have missed several other interesting news and releases. But I think I picked enough fresh fruits from the blossoming Vue garden for now. See you next month with another doze.
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