Vite Inside Out (with Matias "Patak" Capeletto)

03/13/25 • 86 min

Vite is amazing, I think we can all agree on that statement. But what is Vite actually!? Why is it so great, faster than webpack and the "de-facto standard of the web" already?

Alex is joined by Vite Core Team member Matias Capeletto, better known as Patak, to talk about all these questions.

Learn about the future of Vite, how it uses two bundlers under the hood and why almost every framework adopted it. Enjoy the episode!

Enjoy the episode!

Our Guest

Matias "Patak" Capeletto

Chapters

(00:00) - Chapter 1
(00:00) - Welcome to DejaVue
(52:00) - How did you get into programming?
(05:19) - Working on Open Source Full Time
(08:16) - What is Vite?
(18:48) - Why is Vite so fast?
(22:19) - Rollup and ESBuild?
(26:22) - VoidZero and Rolldown
(34:08) - The Scope of Vite
(36:27) - Vite Environment API
(45:49) - Converging Frameworks
(50:51) - Funding in Open Source
(01:04:24) - React as "the last framework"?
(01:10:18) - CRA Deprecation
(01:24:41) - Where can people follow you?
(01:26:09) - Last Words

Links and Resources

Your Hosts
Alexander Lichter

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Vite is amazing, I think we can all agree on that statement. But what is Vite actually!? Why is it so great, faster than webpack and the "de-facto standard of the web" already?

Alex is joined by Vite Core Team member Matias Capeletto, better known as Patak, to talk about all these questions.

Learn about the future of Vite, how it uses two bundlers under the hood and why almost every framework adopted it. Enjoy the episode!

Enjoy the episode!

Our Guest

Matias "Patak" Capeletto

Chapters

(00:00) - Chapter 1
(00:00) - Welcome to DejaVue
(52:00) - How did you get into programming?
(05:19) - Working on Open Source Full Time
(08:16) - What is Vite?
(18:48) - Why is Vite so fast?
(22:19) - Rollup and ESBuild?
(26:22) - VoidZero and Rolldown
(34:08) - The Scope of Vite
(36:27) - Vite Environment API
(45:49) - Converging Frameworks
(50:51) - Funding in Open Source
(01:04:24) - React as "the last framework"?
(01:10:18) - CRA Deprecation
(01:24:41) - Where can people follow you?
(01:26:09) - Last Words

Links and Resources

Your Hosts
Alexander Lichter

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Our Guest

Jan-Niklas Wortmann

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(00:00) - Welcome to DejaVue
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(19:52) - Advice for people doing DevRel
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Links and Resources

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Our Guest

Dennis Adriaansen

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(00:33) - A year of DejaVue
(01:20) - Another announcement from Michael
(02:52) - How did you get into programming?
(07:07) - Would people choose Vue more if it was more popular?
(11:37) - Podcasts and Hot Takes
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(45:05) - Open Source Funding & Contributions
(49:47) - What makes a good Dashboard?
(52:03) - Which backend do you use with Nuxt?
(58:41) - Do you have a preferred UI library?
(01:01:43) - Where can people find you?

Links and Resources

Your Hosts
Alexander Lichter

Michael Thiessen

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DejaVue - Vite Inside Out (with Matias "Patak" Capeletto)

Transcript

Alexander Lichter00:00:00.160

Hey, everybody. Welcome back to DejaVue. It's your favorite Vue podcast. You just don't know it yet. And as you might hear it, we are we are not alone here. Actually, it's the two of us. Michael is on vacation, and, of course, I don't wanna do a podcast alone. Probably could, but it would be more or less a YouTube video. Anyway, long story short, I have an amazing guest here with me. If you watch the video, you might be, like, a bit confu