Web Development: Vite+ Planned as a Unified JavaScript Toolchain

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As part of ViteConf, the Vite development team announced the new Vite+ project—a command-line developer tool as a drop-in upgrade for Vite with additional features. Evan You, developer of the JavaScript framework Vue.js and the frontend build tool Vite.js, shares more information about it in a blog post.

JavaScript Conference: Ideas Wanted

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Unified JavaScript Toolchain as a Goal

As Evan You explains, tooling complexity and performance have emerged as bottlenecks in the JavaScript ecosystem for companies, as they have to deal with limited internal tooling resources in the face of ever-larger web applications.

These bottlenecks are particularly severe in companies with multiple teams, each making their own tooling choices. For example, dependency management and security reviews have to be handled individually in each team, and if teams or projects are merged, it can end up in a “Frankensteined Tool Stack.” This is where Vite+ comes in to provide unified JavaScript tooling.

The Features: Unit Tests, Linting, Bundling, and More

Vite+ can be obtained via npm, just like Vite. In addition to vite dev and vite build, it offers additional possibilities:

• vite new for scaffolding new projects with a structure recommended for Vite+
• vite test for Vitest-based unit tests and with a Jest-compatible API
• vite lint for code linting using Oxlint
• vite fmt for code formatting with the yet-to-be-released Oxfmt
• vite lib for tsdown- and rolldown-based bundling of libraries
• vite run as an integrated monorepo task runner with intelligent caching
• vite ui as GUI devtools for insights into module resolve/transform behavior, bundle size/tree-shaking analysis, and more

Vite+ is compatible with React, Vue, TanStack Start, SvelteKit, and other frameworks thanks to the Vite ecosystem. The complete compiler toolchain of Vite+ has been implemented by the Vite team in Rust, and performance has been optimized at every level – from parser and resolver to transformer, minifier, and bundler –.

Free for Open-Source Projects—But Not in the Enterprise Environment

Vite+ will be free for individual developers, open-source projects, and small businesses. Startups and larger companies, on the other hand, will have to pay. Further details are expected to follow as the release date approaches. A public preview is planned for early 2026. Interested parties can already register via the Vite+ website to test the Vite superset in an early access program.

More information can be found in the announcement on the VoidZero blog.

(mai)