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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 · 05/09/2026

Hello @zurichjs.com! Sorry for being early but that was worth it 🔥

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 30/06/2026

Every time Codex has a new update I wish it would detect that I installed it via Vite+ and not npm 🙈

Terminal showing that there is a codex update available, but only having the option to skip or "update via `npm i -g`" (which is incorrect as I installed it via Vite+)

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 25/06/2026

Time for some performance improvements! Most of them should have a direct impact on @nuxt.com dev cold start time or production build time and improve the whole ecosystem. Just in case people thought that I don't do much @vuejs.org or @nuxt.com anymore 👀

List of PRs that improve the performance of Nuxt, certain Nuxt modules and/or the ecosystem.

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 30/05/2026

Really had a blast at the first ever Laravel Live JP this year 🎉 Besides giving my talk about Vite+ (which you all should use!) I had the chance to be part of the @laravel.com x @voidzero.dev panel. A lot of memories were made with new friends and familiar faces 🙌🏻

Photo of me presenting at Laravel Live JP while showing a Lion King meme about the JS ecosystem

Panel with sapphi-red, Joe Tannenbaum, Taylor Otwell and MC Daniel Daniel Coulbourne

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 21/05/2026

I am having to honor to join this weeks 114th @tc39.es meeting as observer! 🎉

Badge of the 114th TC39 meeting (hosted at JetBrains) with my name + VoidZero as company on it.

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 12/05/2026

Yes! @svelte.dev goes from 🔴 -> 💚 on the Oxfmt side 🔥 You can now format your Svelte components with Oxfmt too. See oxc.rs/docs/guide/u... for more details

Screenshot of https://oxc.rs/compatibility.html showing Svelte Oxfmt compat!

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 09/04/2026

Want to start writing tests but no idea how to get started? The @vitest.dev docs now have a Learn section that covers evergreen concepts (matchers, tests, dealing with async code, mocks, ...) and also current topics like writing good tests with AI! Time to get started 🎉

Navbar of Vitest's "learn" section in the docs, showing menu items like "Using Matchers" or "Writing Tests with AI"

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 30/03/2026

Surprise indeed! (Screenshot with @43081j.com's eslint-plugin-lit) I'll add React Router 👍🏻

Lint rule can catch invalid HTML in Lit components

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 30/03/2026

you might be on an old version then!

VS Code showing Oxc can format Vue components.

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 30/03/2026

Wondering which frameworks Oxlint and Oxfmt support? The Oxc docs now have a compatibility page with details for each framework & file type Almost all front-end frameworks have full or at least partial support for linting and formatting 🎉 Note: This also applies to `vp lint` and `vp fmt` of Vite+

Screenshot of the compatibility docs, showing that almost all frameworks have partial or full support for both, linting at formatting.

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 27/03/2026

Somehow I could find a bit of screen estate to watch the @syntax.fm MadCSS semifinals 🔥 Can't wait for next week 👀

A monitor, macbook screen and teleprompter. The Syntax video is running on the latter

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 12/03/2026

Can't wait until the @vite.dev community discovers the stunning new starter templates 🔥

New Vite.js starter template (here with a Solid application)

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 03/03/2026

Randomly checking out what is going on in the @npmx.dev Discord and found a watch party of... my video? 🤯👀

Spontaneous watch party in the npmx discord 👀

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 27/02/2026

Also clearly noted in the chart itself.

"Known anomalies" hint in the chart with tooltip + contribution option

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 12/02/2026

Couldn't resist to take a look at @npmx.dev it seems 👀

Discord message saying that "TheAlexLichter is now a contributor!" (to npmx)

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 03/02/2026

Sharing some personal news today! @nikibrandner.com said yes 🎉

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 02/01/2026

My new year's resolutions are ```json { "resolutions": { "eslint": "oxlint@latest", "prettier": "oxfmt@latest", "rollup": "rolldown@latest", "vite": "8.0.0-beta.4" } } ``` What are yours? 👀

Snippet from the package.json:

{
"resolutions": {
"eslint": "oxlint@latest",
"prettier": "oxfmt@latest",
"rollup": "rolldown@latest",
"vite": "8.0.0-beta.4"
}
}

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 10/10/2025

Highly disagree. @vite.dev is in no way a 2nd grad product (but feel free to prove me wrong)! The fun part of Vite plus is that it is *not* pushing commercial interests. Free for the community, paid for working startups and big companies, as the website states

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 10/10/2025

Heck yeah! The @nitro.build v3 beta is out now. And Nitro is now just a @vite.dev plugin 👀 Kudos to all contributors, @unjs.io, and @pi0.io 🙌🏻

Slide showing the nitro docks and „ship full stack Vite apps“

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 24/09/2025

Building performant tools doesn't happen by accident. They need a strong foundation! @rolldown.rs and @vite.dev 8 are powered by Oxc for that reason We've evaluated all previous PRs that went into the Oxidation compiler, 290 of them improving performance This is what foundational work looks like!

Partial list of PRs to Oxc which improved performance, grouped by field.

Full list: https://gist.github.com/Boshen/7ee09b4cd22fcb8146b75f55c5ac5321

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 23/09/2025

Wow, @julienhuang-dev.bsky.social does a 300 IQ move and is preparing his library for @nuxt.com 6 👀 (Photo taken at @pragvue.com)

Julien Huang speaking at the PragVue stage, showing a slide saying „preparing for Nuxt 6?“

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 18/09/2025

tsgolint mentioned during @jakebailey.dev's talk about ts-go at @squiggleconf.com ✅ If you didn't try it out, time to jump into type-aware linting with Oxlint. 👀 oxc.rs/docs/guide/u...

SquiggleConf screen showing "tsgolint" - "30x faster typed linting" with a link and stats from the README

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 02/09/2025

Kicking off the @voidzero.dev offsite! The whole team for the first time in a single room 👀🙌🏻

And VoidZero folks from the other side of the table

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 29/08/2025

As an example (of course I don't participate in the raffle)! (1) plain Oxlint in a bigger project (2) With type-aware linting in the @nuxt.com repo 👀

Oxlint CLI results (no type-aware linting):

Found 123518 warnings and 94 errors.
Finished in 65.2s on 124789 files with 88 rules using 4 threads.

Oxlint results (with type-aware linting):

Found 385 warnings and 0 errors.
Finished in 10.4s on 853 files with 103 rules using 4 threads.

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 15/08/2025

tsup is not actively maintained anymore 👀 With >9M NPM monthly downloads and >10k GitHub stars, tsup is undeniably a popular choice for bundling. Unfortunately, it is not under active maintenance anymore. Thanks to @egoist.dev & contributors for all the work on tsup 🙏🏻

A screenshot from the tsup repository showing a text above the heading: "Warning: This project is not actively maintained anymore. Please consider using tsdown instead. Read more in the migration guide".

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 31/07/2025

What a milestone! For the first time in history, weekly NPM downloads for @vite.dev surpassed Webpack's weekly download numbers.

A chart showing weekly downloads for Vite and Webpack. The chart is magnified at the right end. Last week's downloads of webpack are 31.7 million while Vite's are 32.3M. This marks the first time that Vite has more weekly downloads than webpack.

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 24/07/2025

Did you know that @rolldown.rs supports converting your top-level variables to var? It seems weird at first, but is actually helpful - and your output is still ESM and modern code! The transform can improve perf due to avoiding "temporal dead zone" checks of VMs that can cause slowdowns up to 1000%

Three code tabs: The source "index.ts" that includes just "const a = 1; console.log(a)". The config of rolldown showing that "output.topLevelVar" is set to true, and eventually the transformed code that shows "var a = 1" instead of the expected "const a = 1"

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 14/07/2025

Wow! @getoutline.bsky.social moved to the @rolldown.rs-based @vite.dev package and achieved **22.3x faster builds**. Their vite-related build time went down from 47.27s to just 2.12s seconds, meaning installing deps will even take longer than the actual build 🎉 The highest speedup I've seen so far

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 11/07/2025

Did you know that Rolldown-Vite supports tsconfig path resolution out of the box? Use the path resolutions defined in your tsconfig by setting `resolve.tsconfigPaths`. The only requirement? You must use native plugins, either only the resolver or all No extra plugin needed 🙌

Picture of VS Code with an open minimal Vite project. The Vite config only sets `experimental.enableNativePlugin` to "resolver" with a comment saying "// or true, either is necessary", and "resolve.tsconfigPaths" to true.

The tsconfig.json has `compilerOptions.paths` set to `{ "app/*": ["./src/app/*"]`. Eventually, the path resolution is used automatically (wtih autocomplete too!) in src/main.ts when using `import { App } from "app/my-app.ts`, instead of `import { App } from "./src/app/my-app.ts"`!

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 30/06/2025

The @rolldown.rs powered @vite.js version is out for a while, giving 2~16x build speed improvements! If you ever wondered how to switch, then no worries. I show you how in less than 90 seconds! Also, one more goodie for React users (switching to the Oxc-based Vite plugin)

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 25/06/2025

Coming back from vacation, this is exactly the type of motivation notification I need 🙈🤣

Notification with the title „0 subscribers!“ and the text „(Alexander Lichter) Congrats! That’s a big achievement for your channel

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 10/06/2025

ICYMI: You can easily get type-safe routes *and* file-system-based routing in your plain @vuejs.org (and also @nuxt.com) application with the latest package from @esm.dev I've shown how in my latest video! 👇

Thumbnail of the "TYPESAFE and fs-based Routing in plain Vue.js?!" video, showing Alex with a cheeky smile, the text "Type-safe Routes. And FS-based Routing in plain Vue" as well as an example of <RouterLink> with type completion of the "to" property

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 29/05/2025

During @danielroe.dev's talk at @madvue.es he is (once again!) shouting out @e18e.dev as great initiative for the whole web dev ecosystem 🙌🏻

Daniel Roe on Stage giving a shout out to the e18e initiative

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 29/05/2025

At @madvue.es, @esm.dev is kicking it off by talking about Pinia Colada and server state. As a practical demo, he is using the Atidone app by @atinux.com (made with @nuxt.com)

Eduardo on Stage of MadVue showing a demo of Sebastiens Atidone todo list app

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 23/05/2025

42 deps (see graph) a the moment, ~half of them because of rolldown-plugin-dts. That will change as soon as it is written in rust too and integrated! The rest should be covering CLI, configuration, globbing etc. etc. which is reasonable IMO.

Module graph from https://node-modules.dev/graph#install=tsdown showing the 42 dependencies (incl. transitive ones) of tsdown.

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 21/05/2025

During the keynote of @vueconf.us, @danielroe.dev releases `fontless` - a @vite.dev plugin to apply "magical plug-and-play font optimization". Created in collab with the @qwik.dev team This is basically the @nuxt.com fonts module, but for all Vite-based apps 🤯

Photo of the VueConf US 2025 stage during Daniel Roe's talk on the State of Nuxt 2025 where he announces fontless - a Vite plugin to apply "Magical plug-and-play font optimization for modern web applications"

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 19/05/2025

Happy to see Mercedes Benz adopting modern tooling such as @rolldown.rs and Oxc in their workflow, as well as going the extra mile and sharing their results! Up to 64% CI pipeline time reduction is impressive 👀 And more per improvements are yet to come 🤯 www.mercedes-benz.io/blog/2025-05...

Screenshot of the blog post quote saying:

This is truly amazing: we are not talking about refactoring our code or spending time understanding and trying to fit new tools. We are talking about drop-in replacements that could give us a 64% reduction in a CI pipeline (referring to only build + linting).

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 18/05/2025

Received a lovely care package from @jacobandrewsky.bsky.social with some tasty Polish treats, a custom Lego figure and a photo from us back at Vue.js Live (in London). Thank you so much buddy 💚 PS: You'd never guess the caption Jakub wrote on the back of it 👀

Content of Jakub's care package including chocolate of different kinds, salty sticks and crackers, liquid chocolate and a tasty fruit drink

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 30/04/2025

ICYMI: GitLab saw their memory consumption reduced by 100x by using the @rolldown.rs powered @vite.dev version (in addition to a 2.6x speedup) 🤯

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