👉 Don't forget to join ViteConf on October 9-10 in Amsterdam

In this episode of DejaVue, Michael and Alexander look into the major release of Vite 7, including the move to ESM-only, dropping Node 18 support, and adopting the Baseline browser target.
They also discuss the evolving Environment API, upcoming changes in Rolldown-Vite, new Vite dev tools, and more.

Enjoy the Episode!

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to DejaVue
• (00:48) - Vite 7 without breaking changes
• (01:53) - Node Version dropped
• (03:13) - ESM-only and Module Formats
• (09:04) - What does ECMA and GIF mean?
• (10:51) - Browser target to Baseline Wide Available
• (14:31) - Environment API
• (16:14) - Rolldown-Vite
• (17:39) - Cleaning up APIs
• (18:11) - Vite Dev Tools
• (21:41) - ViteConf
• (22:57) - Vite Plugin Vue Beta
• (25:04) - Wrapping Up

Links and Resources

• Vite Announcement post
• require(esm) in Node
• tsdown
• obuild
• fdir PR
• DejaVue #E058 - The History of Nuxt and NuxtLabs (with Sébastien Chopin)
• DejaVue #E051 - Vite Inside Out (with Matias "Patak" Capeletto)
• Vite DevTools Preview (screenshot)
• Vite Plugin Vue 6.0 (not beta anymore)

Your Hosts

Alexander Lichter

• Bluesky
• YouTube
• Website

Michael Thiessen

• Twitter
• YouTube
• Website

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