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🚀 Vite 8.1 is out
⚡ Experimental Full Bundle Mode: ~15x faster dev server startup & ~10x faster full reloads on large apps
🧩 Chunk Import Map to keep chunks stable & improve caching
🦀 WASM ESM integration
💡 Lightning CSS on the road to default
👀 and more!
Blog post below.
ALT Thumbnail of the blog pot saying "Vite 8.1 is here", showing VITE v8.1.0 released 2026-06-23
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⚡️ Vite 5 is out!
Performance improvements, big cleanups, and new features preparing the ground for even more innovation from the ecosystem!
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Vite 6.0 is out ⚡️
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⚡️ Vite 7.0 is out!
- Browser Target Changed to Baseline Widely Available
- Node 18 support dropped. Vite is now distributed as ESM only
- And feats, fixes, and cleanups, while we prepare for rolldown!
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⚡️ vite@4.3 is out!
🔥 It's fast!
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⚡️ Vite 3 is out!
The Vite Team, working closely with maintainers of the ecosystem, is happy to announce the next @vite_js major! Thanks to everyone involved in making this release possible 🙌
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15M weekly npm downloads! ⚡️
ALT Vite's weekly npm downloads graph for the past 5 years.
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⚡️ Vite 4 is out!
From all of us on the Vite team, thanks a lot to everyone that contributed to Core, pushed improvements from your frameworks upstream, expanded the ever-growing plugin ecosystem, and triaged, tested, or helped others in our community 💜
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Vite 5.1 is out! ⚡️
🛠️ Experimental Vite Runtime API (vite-node into core), unlocking HMR for SSR and running code using Vite plugins in any environment
🔥 Dev server performance improvements
✨ import `css?url` support and more!
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Vite 6.1 is out! The 7.5K commits to main release ⚡
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✋ vite@7.0.0-beta.0 is out!
- Browser Target Changed to Baseline Widely Available
- Node 18 support dropped. Vite is now distributed as ESM only
Plus fixes and deprecated feats removals, preparing for rolldown. Help us test the beta and report back 🙏
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Here we go: just released Vite 2.0.0!
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Vite 5.3.0 is out ⚡️
Decorator support (thanks to esbuild 0.21), improved dynamic import tree-shaking, SSR import fixes, and more!
Vite 6 is next, introducing the Environment API. We're working on an even more flexible future for Vite. Get involved! 🙏
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The Vite Documentary… coming soon!
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✨ vite@2.9.0 is out! vitejs.dev
🔥 Faster Cold Start!
🗺️ CSS Sourcemaps during dev
⚙️ Web Workers enhancements
🛠️ New tools for Plugin and Framework authors
🎁 And more! Check out the release notes at github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/…
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Vite 5.2 is out! ⚡️
🔐 CSP nonce and require-trusted-types-for support
🧩 import.meta.filename/dirname support in SSR
🧙♂️ shiki+twoslash powered code snippets in docs
⏩ Update to esbuild 0.20
🛠️ Significant fixes across the board
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10M weekly npm downloads! ⚡️
Vite downloads are a reflection of the constant growth of a lot of projects! Kudos to all the teams in the ecosystem that keep working together to improve our shared base 💜
ALT A graph showing the weekly npm downloads of the vite package since 2020 until January 21, 2024, where vite crossed the 10 million mark
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Vite 7.2 is out! ⚡️
🗃️ `build.license` option
🔌 proxy + HTTP2 support
💜 and more features and fixes
Don't forget to check the complete changelog
github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/…
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✋ vite@6.0.0-beta.0 is out!
If you're building on top of Vite, experiment with the new Module Runner and Environment API and give us feedback! As a user, test compatibility so the ecosystem can smoothly upgrade to v6. Check out the docs to learn more ⚡️
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Vite 6.3 is out! ⚡️
- preprocessor support with LightningCSS
- FetchableDevEnvironment interface
- filter option on hooks, enabling faster plugins with rolldown-vite. Stay tuned for more news soon!
Check the complete changelog at
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⚡️ vite@4.4.0 is out!
Right on time to celebrate 800 contributors to Vite Core! 🙌
🏁 Experimental @lightningcss support
⬆️ esbuild 0.18
💜 create-vite starters for @solid_js and @QwikDev
💬 Korean translation for Vite's docs
Read the full changelog at github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/…
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5M+ weekly npm downloads ⚡️
The Vite ecosystem keeps growing!
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We crossed 1 million monthly npm downloads! 🎉
The ecosystem keeps growing, thanks to all the people working on plugins and integrations, improving Vite core, helping each other, and enjoying the boost in DX while developing their apps ⚡️
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⚡️ vite@2.8.0 is out! vitejs.dev
🛠️ esbuild 0.14 and TS 4.5
⚙️ Workers using the new URL() pattern
🔥 Reduced footprint: 2.8.0 is almost 1/4 of 2.7.0 publish size, and the install size has been reduced by half!
Check out the release notes at github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/…
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⚡️ State of JS 2021 Results
With a 98% Satisfaction score, @vite_js got both the Highest Satisfaction and Highest Interest Awards!
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vite@6.0.0-beta.10 is out!
This is a big one! We plan to release v6 stable as soon as vite-ecosystem-ci is green, so if you have feedback, especially about Environment API please let us know quickly.
Learn more about what's new at the v6 migration guide
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✨ vite@3.0.0-beta.1 is out!
📜 Release Notes github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/…
⏩ Migration Guide main.vitejs.dev/guide/migrat…
Get involved and help us! Test the beta in your projects and report back how it works for you, or any issues you find 🙌
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⚡️ Vite v2.3.0 is out!
Thanks to everyone involved, there are more than 250 contributors now 🙌
Check out the release notes at
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Vite 5.0.0-beta.11 is out! ✋
❤️ Upgrade to @RollupJS v4!
📅 Node.js v18+ required
⚠️ CJS Node API deprecation
🎁 And a lot more features and cleanups
Learn more at the Vite 5 migration guide and help us test the beta! 🙏
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Vite 5.4 is out ⚡️
If you're using Sass, the new "modern" and "modern-compiler" APIs will give your apps a performance boost!
We'll be kicking off the next major beta with Environment API soon. If you're building on top of vite, get involved 🛠️
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One year after Vite 2 first steps...
🚀 850k weekly npm downloads, 10% of Rollup!
🌟 40k stars on GitHub github.com/vitejs/vite
💙 25k followers on Twitter @vite_js
💬 8.5k members on Discord
🙌 And more than 500 contributors!
⚡️ Milestones
🚀 100k weekly npm downloads
🌟 25k stars on GitHub github.com/vitejs/vite
💙 6.5k followers on Twitter @vite_js
💬 2.5k members on Discord
🙌 One PR away from 250 contributors
Join the #contributing channel at chat.vitejs.dev and get involved!
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⚡️ vite@4.2 is out! vitejs.dev
💜 Just in time to celebrate 750 contributors to the Vite repo!
🧩 Env variables in HTML files
📑 Improved source maps and trace logging
✅ ESM subpath imports
📗 Português Translation
🎁 Read the changelog at github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/…
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⚡️ vite@2.6.0 is out! vitejs.dev
⏩ minify with esbuild by default, 20~40x faster
🌊 async script tag for streaming SSR
✅ 0kb of JavaScript support
🔥 pre transform direct imports before requests hit the server
Check out the changelog at github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/…
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⚡️ @vite_js is the top build tool in 2021 JavaScript Rising Stars, and 2nd in Most Popular Projects Overall. A lot of Vite-powered frameworks and libs are highlighted in the report. Congrats to all, 2022 is going to be a big year for the Vite ecosystem!
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⚡️ vite@2.7.0 is out! vitejs.dev
Most collaborative release so far. Kudos to the whole ecosystem!
🎉 Revamped SSR dependency handling
🧩 API consolidation
🛑 server.fs.strict by default
⚠️ latest versions of plugins required github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/…
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⚡️ vite@2.5.0 is out! vitejs.dev
~6x speed of css minification using esbuild, modulepreload polyfill for non-chromium based browsers, and a lot of other improvements and bug fixes. Check out the changelog at github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/…
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⚡️ Milestones
🚀 100k weekly npm downloads
🌟 25k stars on GitHub github.com/vitejs/vite
💙 6.5k followers on Twitter @vite_js
💬 2.5k members on Discord
🙌 One PR away from 250 contributors
Join the #contributing channel at chat.vitejs.dev and get involved!
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✋ vite@4.4.0-beta.1 is out!
Beta docs at main.vitejs.dev
⚡️ Experimental support for Lightning CSS
🔼 esbuild 0.18
💜 and more feats and fixes
Help us test the new minor, and let us know how it works for you! Check out the full changelog at
github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/…
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⚡️ Vite 4.1 is out!
🎁 Updates to our core dependencies (@RollupJS and esbuild), bug fixes, and perf improvements. A new major of Vite's Legacy Plugin. And new releases of the React plugins fixing many HMR edge cases and adding support for @swc_rs plugins
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⚡️ Vite in 100 seconds by @fireship_dev 🔥
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Vite 5.0.0-beta.16 is out! 🙌
Check out the updated migration guide at main.vitejs.dev/guide/migrat…
We're close to releasing the next stable Vite major. Please help us test the beta and let us know how it works in your projects 🙏
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Vite 5.1.0-beta.6 is out! ✋
⚡️ Experimental Vite Runtime API (vite-node into core)
🔥 Run CSS preprocessors in a separate thread
💫 Dev server performance improvements
🤝 import `css?url` support
Help us test the beta and give us feedback!
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Hello there
Hello world!
Rolldown is now open source on GitHub: github.com/rolldown-rs/rolld…
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Is your company using Vite? We are trying to put together a list... let us know here!
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🎉 Reached Milestones!
📈 40k npm downloads weekly
🌟 20k stars on GitHub github.com/vitejs/vite
💜 4k followers on twitter @vite_js
💬 1k members on chat.vitejs.dev
Top monthly TypeScript project trending on @github
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Let's keep building!⚡️
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🌟 40K stars on github.com/vitejs/vite
@vite_js is now on the TOP 200 most starred repositories on GitHub!
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Vite 7.2.0-beta.1 is out ✋
Beta docs at main.vitejs.dev
🗃️ `build.license` option
🔌 proxy + HTTP2 support
💜 and more feats and fixes
Help us test the beta and give us feedback!
Full changelog linked below.
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We have released patches for a moderate security vulnerability for the vite dev server. Please update to the patched versions: 6.2.3, 6.1.2, 6.0.12, 5.4.15, 4.5.10
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⚡️ vite@3.1.0 is out! 🙌
✅ Vite now uses parse5.js.org, a battle-tested HTML5-compliant parser (also used by jsdom, Angular, Lit).
🆕 Support for the new @RollupJS hooks object form (order, sequential).
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⚡️ vite@3.2.0 is out! vitejs.dev
✅ Thanks to vite-ecosystem-ci we tested it on Nuxt, SvelteKit, Astro, Marko, Rakkas, Vitest, and Laravel, among other projects in the Ecosystem.
Upgrade your apps today and get involved! Next up is Vite 4 🙌
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✋ vite@7.1.0-beta.0 is out!
Help us testing the next Vite minor and report any issues you find! Check out the changelog at
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🚀 vite@2.6.0-beta.1 is out!
⚡️ minify with esbuild by default, 20~40x faster
🔥 pre transform direct imports before requests hit the server, 50~70% faster load time for large apps
Let us know how it works for you!
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vitejs/create-app is now released as create-vite, giving you a shorter and easier to remember command to scaffold your @vite_js projects ⚡️
Thanks a lot, @brillout for donating the create-vite package to the vitejs org! ❤️
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⚡️ Milestones! We just reached 5K commits and 50k Stars on github.com/vitejs/vite 🌟
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✋ vite@4.3.0-beta.2 is out!
🔥 We've been focusing on dev performance for the next @vite_js minor. Try it out in your projects, and let us know how it works for you!
Check out the full changelog at
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In the past two months, the Vite repo got 50+ new contributors, for a total of more than 300 contributors in this first year of the project. Thanks to everybody that keeps making Vite better every day!
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⚡️ @vite_js reached 15k followers 🎉
Next milestone: 35k stars on GitHub 🌟github.com/vitejs/vite
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⚡️ @vite_js crossed 2 million npm weekly downloads!
✅ and @vitest_dev smashed the 500K milestone, becoming one of the main drivers of Vite's adoption. Kudos to the vitest.dev team and community 🔥
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⚡️ Vite v2.4.0 is out! vitejs.dev
Thanks for your help testing the beta!
Check out the new features and bug fixes in the release notes at github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/…
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⚡️vite v2.2.0 is out! vitejs.dev
This is the first team/community-driven minor release, with bug fixes and new features from 25 different contributors. Kudos to everybody that collaborated to improve @vite_js!
Check out the changelog at
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✋ vite@4.0.0-beta.0 is out! main.vitejs.dev
🛠️ Upgrade to @RollupJS 3
⏩ New React plugin using @swc_rs during dev
🎁 And more
Help us test it! We're aiming for a quick release as the ecosystem worked during the alpha to ensure a smooth upgrade
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We were waiting for this milestone! The Vite core repo has more than 1K contributors now! 💜
Thanks to everyone that is working to improve Vite 🙌
ALT 1K+ contributors in the Vite repo!
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Powered by Vite ⚡️
Hello Hydrogen: our new React-based web development framework to build custom storefronts powered by Shopify is now available in developer preview
Its intersection between commerce, UX & developer experience makes it simple, fast, and fun for developers👉bit.ly/3GY91mW
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Vite 5.4.0-beta.1 is out! The final final minor for Vite 5 as promised ✋
Try out the new sass "modern" and "modern-compiler" APIs for faster sass compilation time, and many bug fixes prepping for the next major ⚡️
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SSR docs now available: vitejs.dev/guide/ssr.html
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✋ vite@4.1.0-beta.1 is out!
Apart from fixes and perf improvements in core, a new release of the Vite React plugin fixes many HMR edge cases. Please help us to test the beta and report back! 💜
> pnpm create vite@beta
Check out the changelog at
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We published a CVE for a moderate dev server security vulnerability. Please update to the latest versions: 6.2.4, 6.1.3, 6.0.13, 5.4.16, 4.5.11.
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From vuejs.org/guide/quick-start.…
> The official Vue build setup is based on Vite, a frontend build tool that is modern, lightweight, and extremely fast.
@vite_js is now the official recommendation for new @vuejs apps 💚⚡️
🎉 It's done! Vue 3 is now the default version and the brand new vuejs.org is live!
More details in the blog post in case you missed it: blog.vuejs.org/posts/vue-3-a…
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If you are using Vite, what is your biggest pain point?
If not using Vite, what's preventing you from adopting it?
Let us know in this survey to help us better understand what to improve!
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`new URL(url, import.meta.url)` is supported in v2.4.0
During build, Vite will apply transforms so the URLs point to the correct location even after bundling and asset hashing. During development nothing is needed, this works natively in modern browsers!
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✋ vite@2.5.0-beta.0 is out!
Please help us test the beta and give us feedback on how it works for your projects.
⏩ ~6x speed of css minification using esbuild
🦊 modulepreload polyfill
Check out the changelog at github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/…
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⚡️ 14. Vite Satisfaction score 9.6 ❤️
From @jamstackconf Community Survey 2020—2021
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⚡️ Results of State of JS 2022 for Vite:
Increase in Usage from 30% last year to 49%, and Awareness from 66% to 83% while staying at the top of Interest and Retention. Thanks to everyone involved in helping Vite grow and improve this year 💜
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⚡️ Results from the @jamstackconf 2022 survey are out: @vite_js' usage more than doubled in a year to 32%, while keeping a high satisfaction score. Thanks a lot to the community and ecosystem ❤️
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Vite 5.3.0-beta.1 is out ✋
Help us test the improved dynamic import treeshaking, decorator support (esbuild 0.21), SSR import fixes, and more!
This will be the last minor before we merge the Vite 6 Environment API branch 👀
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✋ vite@2.4.0-beta.0 is out, in preparations for the next minor release. Please help us test the beta and report any issues you find. Thanks!
Check out the changelog at
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For @reactjs apps, Vite now officially supports two plugins with different tradeoffs. For large applications, Vite offers a new plugin that replaces Babel with @swc_rs during development, so cold start and HMR are significantly faster 🦀
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Despite the overwhlemingly positive feedback in the State of JS survey, we still believe there are many things we can improve in Vite, especially for use cases at scale.
Help the Vite team better understand user needs with this survey: forms.gle/xcYXQMDAWoBJ97HD6
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✋ vite@2.7.0-beta.1 is out!
This minor focuses on security (server.fs.strict enabled by default), SSR fixes, and necessary API changes. We worked with maintainers in the ecosystem to ensure users wouldn't be affected. Check out the complete changelog at github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/…
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A crucial ally behind Vite's DX is @evanwallace's esbuild
> The main goal of the esbuild bundler project is to bring about a new era of build tool performance
Thanks for your work Evan, we are going to do our part to help towards that goal ⚡️
esbuild.github.io
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We are 400 contributors in the @vite_js repo now!
And the community and ecosystem keeps growing, github.com/vitejs/vite just entered the Top 250 most starred repos in GitHub ⚡️
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✋ We are almost there!
Update your project's plugins to the latest versions (required for the next release)
⦿ plugin-vue@1.10.0
⦿ plugin-vue-jsx@1.3.0
⦿ plugin-react@1.1.0
Try the latest beta, and report any issue you find!
⚡️ vite@2.7.0-beta.8
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> 468 days after the first commit, Nuxt 3 is finally out of beta. Discover what's inside and what to expect from it. Yes, it includes Vue 3 and Vite ⚡️
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There is a new Community for @vite_js on Twitter 👋
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New patches (6.2.5, 6.1.4, 6.0.14, 5.4.17, 4.5.12) have been released to address moderate security vulnerabilities in vite's dev server. We want to thank the reporters for stress-testing Vite and creating security advisories for these issues.
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✋ vite@3.2.0-beta.1 is out! main.vitejs.dev
📦 multiple entries for lib mode
🛠️ build.modulePreload options
✨ and much more!
Please try it out and help us test the beta!
And see y'all tomorrow at @ViteConf ⚡️
Check the complete changelog at
github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/…
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Two low severity CVEs affecting the vite dev server have been published (only when using --host and for certain low impact files). Please update to the patched versions: 7.1.5, 7.0.7, 6.3.6, 5.4.20
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After only one week from the Vite 3 release, most frameworks in the ecosystem have successfully migrated! 🔥
Join @bluwyoo, @haoqunjiang, @antfu7, and @patak_dev, to learn more about what's new and what's next ⚡️
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Yes! Don't miss the premiere of the Vite Documentary at the first in-person @ViteConf 🙌⚡️
We’re super excited to share that the Vite Documentary premieres October 9th at @ViteConf in Amsterdam ⚡
@vite_js
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👋 We've set up GitHub Sponsors for the Vite org! We appreciate your support! 💜
github.com/sponsors/vitejs
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