Alexander Lichter

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🧡 Engineer @cloudflare.social 🎬 Video Content https://lichter.link/yt 💚 @nuxt.com team 🕰️ prev. DevRel @voidzero.dev

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.

Vite 8.2 is out 🚀 • Top-level `input` option: No need to use `build.rolldownOptions` • Warnings for config features the native loader can't handle yet • PostCSS config type export for type-safe configs • Dev URLs now labeled by their interfaces More info in the changelog github.com/vitejs/vite/...

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good timeline. this is magic-string, 140M dls/week. a week ago i asked if it could go ESM only - @sxzz.dev dropped a PR <1 day later 🎉 later, I removed sourcemaps and did 2 big CPU perf speed ups 🚀 love seeing a high impact package like this shrink and speed up

magic-string package dropping by 56% (304.9KB), then later by another 36% (86.8KB). Also changed to ESM only and enabled trusted publishing/provenance.

Nuxt 4.5 is out, and it's a big one. 🚀 - ⚡️ Vite 8 - 🦀 Rspack 2, now powered by Rsbuild - 🌊 experimental SSR streaming for faster TTFB - 🩺 a new stable error code system - 🎨 useLayout, named views, and more ... plus a lot of groundwork for Nuxt 5! 💚💚💚

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Nuxt 4.5 is our biggest release in a while. Vite 8, Rspack 2 powered by Rsbuild, experimental SSR streaming, a stable error code system, a new useLayout composable, named views, and a lot of groundwor...

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`vmThreads` is 30% faster in Vitest 5 for your jsdom tests. It is now a much better alternative to the default forks+jsdom. Vitest 5 also comes with a `vitest doctor` command that will find the best settings for you! As a note, browser mode also becomes ~30% faster, but for different reasons :)

an app with 342 modules + real deps is ~32% faster. 1022 modules + heavier deps is ~28% faster

Tales from the Void: June Recap 🚀 Vite+ enters beta: Your toolchain for dev, test, lint, format & build ⚡ @vite.dev 8.1 ships with bundled dev mode 🦀 Faster Oxc & Rolldown ✅ Oxlint by default in the Vite React template 📰 and more news from the community Full recap: voidzero.dev/posts/whats-...