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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 28/09/2026
Time flies! @voidzero.dev joined @cloudflare.social 4 months ago. Since then, *so much* has happened. So for everyone wondering how it is going, read @evanyou.me's blog post 👀 blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-upd...
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Four months of VoidZero at Cloudflare: making the open-source JavaScript toolchain faster for all humans and agents
Since joining Cloudflare, VoidZero has delivered more than 80 releases that drastically speed up JavaScript compilation, linting, and testing.
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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 28/09/2026
Vite+ reached stable 1.0 If you didn’t try it out yet, NOW is the best time 🔥
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James @43081j.com · 24/09/2026
Today we're launching ai-policy.dev! A collaboration of me, @danielroe.dev and @matteogabriele.npmx.social - this provides a few human curated AI contribution policies you can choose from. Our hope is that this will help you better define your stance and what kind of contributions you accept 🙏
ai-policy.dev
AI Contribution Policies
Ready-to-use AI contribution policies for open source projects.
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programmier.bar - der podcast für web & mobile dev @programmier.bar · 15/09/2026
Bundler, Linter, Formatter, Testrunner, Package-Manager: Vite+ holt alles unter eine CLI. Alexander Lichter aus dem Vite+-Team spricht mit uns über die Architektur, AI-Agents und erzählt, warum aus der Unternehmenslizenz eine MIT-Lizenz wurde. Hier hören: www.programmier.bar/podcast/deep...
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npmx @npmx.dev · 24/09/2026
We have @thealexlichter.com taking about Vite+
Alex on on our floor podium with his laptop speaking
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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 23/09/2026
ICYMI: @voidzero.dev (that means @cloudflare.social) is hiring Engineers and DevRels 👀 Make sure to apply to work with me and the stellar team 🔥 job-boards.greenhouse.io/cloudflare/j... job-boards.greenhouse.io/cloudflare/j...
job-boards.greenhouse.io
VoidZero Developer Relations Engineer
Hybrid
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Santosh Yadav | GDE 🅰️ | GitHub ⭐ | MVP @santoshyadav.dev · 22/09/2026
I am having fun doing OSS. Glad I met some amazing people during @zurichjs.com and @wts.rocks Thank you @thealexlichter.com @danielroe.dev and @43081j.com appreciate your time
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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 22/09/2026
Amsterdam Devs Unite! Join our @vitest.dev x @npmx.dev meetup 🙌🏻
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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 20/09/2026
Reviewing that PR was pretty easy 👀
PR showing +111.372 and -206.902 changed lines
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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 20/09/2026
controversial title 🤝🏻 uncontroversial content (read this!)
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Anthony Fu @antfu.me · 16/09/2026
It's been a while... Introducing Devframe v1.0 🚀 The framework for building DevTools that can run everywhere, for any meta-framework, for both humans and agents. Check out the announcement post and join our Discord 👇
devfra.me
Pluggable, Extensible, and Playful DevTools
Introduction to Devframe, a framework for building pluggable, extensible, and playful DevTools.
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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 14/09/2026
🙋‍♂️ ever wanted to build something without needing to configure a db, auth, file storage or a cms? it turns out you already have all four if you have a bluesky account 👉 airspace is a typed client for it
getair.space
airspace
The database you already have.
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Alex @alexdln.com · 14/09/2026
11 years ago, Node.js and io.js merged back into one project
A screenshot of the npmx.dev homepage with an updated logo dedicated to the io.js and node.js merge
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Sarah Rainsberger @sarah11918.rainsberger.ca · 14/09/2026
This year @viteconf.org is back online for all to enjoy! For three years, I've been sharing ideas about what docs is. Tune in for 2026 to hear my take on what docs is... not? Register and create your own ViteConf mission credential! viteconf.org/tickets/t/C6...
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Sarah Rainsberger's ViteConf 2026 mission credential
Sarah Rainsberger is on a connect mission for ViteConf 2026. Create your own credential.
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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 12/09/2026
Had a lot of fun at @zurichjs.com! Phenomenal first edition 🎉
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Colin @colinscz.npmx.social · 11/09/2026
Now the e18e panel 🟠🟡🟢 is happening at @zurichjs.com conf hosted by @thealexlichter.com with @tolin.ski @43081j.com @debbie.codes & @santoshyadav.dev
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Santosh Yadav | GDE 🅰️ | GitHub ⭐ | MVP @santoshyadav.dev · 11/09/2026
I will be part of the amazing panel discussion after lunch at 13:05 at @zurichjs.com , hosted by @thealexlichter.com Hope to see you all.
I will be part of the amazing panel discussion after lunch at 13:05 at @zurichjs , hosted by @TheAlexLichter 
 
Hope to see you all.
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sapphi_red @sapphi.red · 07/09/2026
I created my ViteConf 2026 mission credential. Create yours! 🥳 viteconf.org/tickets/t/bK...
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翠's ViteConf 2026 mission credential
翠 is on a build mission for ViteConf 2026. Create your own credential.
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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 05/09/2026
Hello @zurichjs.com! Sorry for being early but that was worth it 🔥
View from a mountain hut in Switzerland
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Vitest @vitest.dev · 03/09/2026
Vitest 5 is here! 🎉 - Big performance improvements (vm pools up to 53% faster, ~18% boost across the board including Browser Mode) - New builtin Trace View in Browser Mode - Nested projects support - New benchmarking API - New `vi.when` API - Better defaults - And a lot of bug fixes!
vitest.dev
Announcing Vitest 5.0
Vitest 5.0 Release Announcement
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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 03/09/2026
OSS maintainers are sleeping on AgentScan! 👀
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Brandon Roberts @brandonroberts.dev · 02/09/2026
⚡️ @viteconf.org is back for 2026! I created my ViteConf 2026 mission credential. Create yours! viteconf.org/tickets/t/pQ...
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Brandon Roberts's ViteConf 2026 mission credential
Brandon Roberts is on a connect mission for ViteConf 2026. Create your own credential.
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VoidZero @voidzero.dev · 02/09/2026
Time for a recap! Tales from the Void: August 2026 is out 🎉 ⚡ The native React Compiler lands in Vite 8 via Oxc, 15x faster than Babel 📄 RFC to reduce chunks in Vite 📈 Vitest crosses 100M weekly downloads 🎟️ ViteConf tickets are now customizable 👀 and more news voidzero.dev/posts/whats-...
voidzero.dev
Tales from the Void: August 2026 Recap
Our August 2026 recap covers React Compiler support in Vite via Oxc, Vitest crossing 100 million weekly downloads, ViteConf 2026, and the latest from Vite+, Rolldown, and our community.
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James @43081j.com · 01/09/2026
Next week, @thealexlichter.com is hosting an @e18e.dev panel at Zurich JS! 🎉 If you're around, come say hi 🙏
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Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 01/09/2026
The game is on! Who wore it better? I have Astro trying to fly away from me, but Vite is attached to me. A lot of psychology involved in how you position your stickers… viteconf.org/tickets/t/ij...
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Matija Marohnić's ViteConf 2026 mission credential
Matija Marohnić is on a build mission for ViteConf 2026. Create your own credential.
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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 31/08/2026
looking forward to this year's @viteconf.org ⚡
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Daniel Roe's ViteConf 2026 mission credential
Daniel Roe is on a ship mission for ViteConf 2026. Create your own credential.
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Philippe Serhal @philippeserhal.com · 31/08/2026
I do framework things at @netlify.com and I am easily nerd-sniped, so naturally I painstakingly spelled out some messages with framework logos: viteconf.org/tickets/t/aE... ... oh, right, and I'll be speaking about stuff, be sure to tune in, etc. etc.
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Philippe Serhal's ViteConf 2026 mission credential
Philippe Serhal is on a connect mission for ViteConf 2026. Create your own credential.
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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 31/08/2026
Time to show off your @viteconf.org attendance by creating your own custom mission credential Choose your favorite tooling, frameworks and ecosystem stickers and share your unique ticket with the community! Here is mine 😄 viteconf.org/tickets/t/Ux...
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Alexander Lichter's ViteConf 2026 mission credential
Alexander Lichter is on a build mission for ViteConf 2026. Create your own credential.
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Laravel News @laravelnews.com · 28/08/2026
Laravel Starter Kits Now Ship with Vite+ laravel-news.com/laravel-star...
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Laravel Starter Kits Now Ship with Vite+
Every Laravel starter kit now builds with Vite+, trading ESLint and Prettier for a single vp check across React, Vue, Svelte, and Livewire.
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AriPerkkio @ariperkkio.dev · 27/08/2026
The @vitest/istanbuljs fork is now ready and will ship in the next version of Vitest. Compared to the original istanbuljs packages it's ESM-only, ships its own typings, drops unnecessary runtime deps, and moves Node 8→22, Babel 7→8 (lib-instrument), React→Preact (html-spa reporter), and more!
github.com
Release v1.0.0 · vitest-dev/istanbuljs
v1.0.0 First stable release of @vitest/istanbuljs, a fork of istanbuljs/istanbuljs maintained by the Vitest team. The fork starts at upstream commit 28ffdbc (see vitest-dev/vitest#9433 for backgrou...
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Orta Therox @orta.io · 24/08/2026
7 months ago I did a big "Upgrade to vite/rolldown" PR ( bsky.app/profile/orta... ) which reduced @puzzmo.com build times solidly. Today we have experimental support for the react compiler in Vite natively (via oxc) This managed to get all of puzzmo.com built in @vite.dev in under 3 seconds now!
Shows a GitHub pull request with the notes puzzmo.com : 13.4 seconds down to 2.8 seconds
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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 19/08/2026
Could not resist!
AI generate post saying „Spent the whole morning arguing with my IDE that a 2x speedup is not a valid reason to rewrite the build pipeline in Rust. Now I'm just using Vite+ and pretending the pain doesn't exist.“
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Matt TK Taylor @tk.gg · 19/08/2026
Do you build Cloudflare Workers with Vite? Do you use Auxiliary Workers? This is a part of the config we are considering changing and we would like to hear from any users of it. Discussion here: github.com/cloudflare/w...
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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 18/08/2026
The @react.dev compiler landed in Oxc (thanks @boshen.github.io) 🎉 It is 2x faster than the initial Rust port while being 2x smaller and comes with granular rule support for Oxlint, improved diagnostics messages, and an *optional* transform for @vite.dev (integration with the React plugin pending)
oxc.rs
React Compiler Support
A collection of high-performance JavaScript tools written in Rust
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James @43081j.com · 18/08/2026
bit of a niche thing but i put a tool together for diffing ava and vitest snapshots. migrating from ava to vitest is a pain because: - vitest snapshots are text - ava snapshots are encoded values, cbor'd, then gzipped this tool lets you confirm your new vitest snapshots match the old ones
github.com
GitHub - 43081j/ava-vitest-snapshot-diff: A tool to diff ava and vitest snapshots.
A tool to diff ava and vitest snapshots. Contribute to 43081j/ava-vitest-snapshot-diff development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Yunfei He @hyfdev.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@rolldown.rs has a new RFC: "Reduce small common chunks" This is a fundamental enhancement to Rolldown's chunking capabilities and may also have an impact on the @vite.dev ecosystem. We'd love your feedback. Please leave your thoughts in the discussion: github.com/rolldown/rol...
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RFC: Reduce small common chunks · rolldown rolldown · Discussion #10693
RFC: Reduce small common chunks Feature Name: Progressive Module Runtime Authors: Yunfei He and Overlookmotel Start Date: 2026-07-23 Table of contents Summary Motivation Guide-level explanation Ref...
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sapphi_red @sapphi.red · 13/08/2026
I was in the mood to write a blog post, so I wrote one about the mangler. green.sapphi.red/blog/how-var...
green.sapphi.red
How Variable Mangling Works in Oxc Minifier
sapphi-red's portfolio.
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VoidZero @voidzero.dev · 13/08/2026
🌌 Tales from the Void: July2026 Recap ⚡️ ViteConf returns Oct 15 💜 VoidZero is hiring 🦀 Oxlint's type-aware linting is stable 👀 and more from the community voidzero.dev/posts/whats-...
voidzero.dev
Tales from the Void: July 2026 Recap
Our July 2026 recap covers stable type-aware linting in Oxlint, Vite 8 overtaking Vite 7 in downloads, Angular moving to Rolldown and Oxc, and the latest from our community.
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Software Stewardship Lab @stewardshiplab.org · 07/08/2026
Today, we're launching a world-class research lab dedicated to Open Source sustainability with a team of some of the most experienced people in the world.
stewardshiplab.org
A Research Lab for Open Source ✸ Software Stewardship Lab
Today, we're launching a world-class research lab dedicated to Open Source sustainability with a team of some of the most experienced people in the world.
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Vladimir @vladimir.berlin · 24/07/2026
@vitest.dev 5-beta.7 is out with a lot of performance improvements depending on your setup. If you are using jsdom, consider switching to vmThreads pool for x4 speedup! Are your tests now running faster? github.com/vitest-dev/v...
A table with performance data for different types of app:

deps-heavy, vm pools (warm + cold)	−53…−58%
micro-utils, vm pools warm	−22…−29%
enterprise-monolith, forks isolate:true	−21…−33%
node-library, all cells	−9…−27%
node-backend, vm pools	−22…−28%
browser mode (react-spa/vue-spa/design-system)	−7…−18%
jsdom warm rows across SPA apps	−8…−22%
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patak @patak.cat · 08/08/2026
not everyday you wander into the woods with @thealexlichter.com and @danielroe.dev ☺️
Matias, Alex, and Daniel in the woods
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James Snell @jasnell.me · 05/08/2026
Oh! Btw... As of yesterday (2026-08-04) ... nodejs_compat is enabled *by default* for a new Cloudflare Worker deployments using compat date 2026-08-04 or later.
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James @43081j.com · 05/08/2026
If you haven't watched the e18e show yet, please do! @thealexlichter.com is doing great work with this and we get such nice guests 🙏 We need more spaces like this to let the builders of the community share the great things they are doing 🩵
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YouTube
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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 05/08/2026
And we are live now with @honk.foo youtube.com/live/L8Edgas...
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e18e & friends E004 - Oliver Medhurst
What if you could compile JavaScript to Native but ahead of time? W...
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Nuxt @nuxt.com · 05/08/2026
Our first Nuxtathon is a wrap! ✨ On July 18-19, 34 people showed up, helping close 246 issues + merge 69 PRs in one weekend. Congratulations to @orbisk.bsky.social, @flo-heuberger.bsky.social and @norbiros.dev + thank you to everyone who participated 💚 There will definitely be a next time 👀
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'The Necromancer' (oldest issue closed)
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AriPerkkio @ariperkkio.dev · 05/08/2026
TIL when running Vitest browser mode (or plain Playwright) on Github Actions on Ubuntu, you can skip the slow "playwright install chromium" step completely by providing channel option. This makes Playwright use the pre-installed Chrome. So many projects out there that could speed their CIs with this
Github PR diff view showing removal of "playwright install" step, and addition of "launchOptions.channel: 'chrome'" on Vitest Playwright provider.
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Connor Shea @connorshea.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In today's Oxlint 1.77.0 release, import/no-cycle (our slowest Rust rule) gets more than 3x as fast!
Benchmark table: import/no-cycle on the vscode corpus drops from 3520.0 ms (1.76.0) to 1143.9 ms (1.77.0), a 3.08× wall-clock speedup, faster in all 15 paired rounds.
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e18e @e18e.dev · 03/08/2026
come join us tomorrow on the live stream where we'll be chatting to Oliver about porffor! 🎉
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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 03/08/2026
No more confusion between `vp dev` and `vp run dev` 🎉
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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 31/07/2026
New post just dropped!
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