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990: Vite Is Taking Over (Vite+)

March 25, 2026·34 min·3 clips
Vite Plus went from a paid tool to completely open source, unifying the entire JavaScript toolchain into one experience.
Wes Bos, Scott Tolinski, and guest CJ dive into Vite Plus, a unified JavaScript toolchain that aims to consolidate bundling, linting, formatting, and more into a single developer experience. They explore its shift from paid to open source, key features like OxLint and task caching, and discuss where it still falls short for frameworks like Svelte.

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A practical, measured look at Vite Plus as a bid for a more unified JavaScript toolchain.

Vite Plus comes across as a push to make JavaScript tooling feel less like a pile of separate choices and more like one coherent product. The discussion moves through TS go lint, type-aware linting with Oxalant, faster TypeScript Go-based tooling, and VP migrate, including its…

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You want to know whether Vite Plus can calm JavaScript toolchain clutter before you point it at the projects that matter most.

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