You Say Vite, I Say Vite | Ep 4

This week Erik and Kamran talk about Vite (Vight? Veet?), what it's good for, how it works, and its status as the "go-to" tool for frontend tooling.

• (04:21) - This Week in TypeScript: TS 5.8 Beta
• (11:02) - This Week in TypeScript: Ruck 9 Released
• (12:39) - This Week in TypeScript: Type Stripping in the Browser
• (14:45) - Community Highlight: Deno and Qwik Video
• (15:52) - Community Highlight: Zig, TypeScript, and WASM by David Bushell
• (16:49) - New Library Watch: tsc-extra
• (17:24) - New Library Watch: typemap and typebox
• (18:23) - Vite Overview
• (22:01) - Vite: Getting Started
• (22:53) - Vite: build and preview
• (23:34) - Vite: How Does It Work?
• (26:57) - Vite: Support for Libraries and Frameworks
• (28:04) - Vite 6.0: Environments API
• (30:27) - Vite 6.0: Support for Additional HTML Asset References
• (31:28) - Vite: Testing with Vitest
• (32:48) - Vite Gripes and Gotchas
• (33:52) - Vite Gripes: Dev and Prod Build Inconsistencies
• (35:14) - Vite Gotcha: Forgetting to Set a URL Base
• (35:49) - Vite Gotcha: Targeting Legacy Browsers
• (38:30) - Vite Gripes: npm linking
• (41:43) - Vite's Future: What Are We Excited About?
• (44:12) - Secrets of the Handbook: Type Guards and Predicates
• (47:27) - Cool Stuff: Write Typesafe Emails with React.email
• (49:51) - Cool Yet Questionable Stuff: Custom Type Errors When Working With Generics

• News: TS 5.8 Beta Released
• News: Ruck 9, a Deno web framework
• News: Guy Bedford releases es-module-shims@2.0, allowing type stripping in the browser
• Community: Qwik and Deno (📸 Video)
• Community: Benchmarking Zig, TS and WASM by David Bushell (✍️ Blog Post)
• New Libraries
  • tsc-extra
    • Static analysis tool, type checking only, no code generation or compiling
    • Useful for documentation or lower-level TS tools
  • Typemap is like a Zod alternative, built for TypeBox
    • “It offers a common TypeScript syntax for type construction, a runtime compiler for high-performance validation and type translation from one library to another.”

Vite Deep Dive

• Homepage
• Evan You's State of Vite 2023 Keynote (📸 Video)
• Why Use Vite?
• Vite 6 Updates
• Sapphi-Red's Increasing Vite's Potential With the Environment API (✍️ Blog Post)
• Vite's browser compatibility
• Vite's future, bundling with Rolldown

Links

• Handbook: Type Guards and Predicates
• Send typesafe emails with React.email
• Better string literal errors (📸 Video)

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Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

Creators & Guests

• Kamran Ayub - Host
• Erik Onarheim - Host