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Let's hear it for the UN of Javascript! Vite: The Documentary is finally here. If you missed the premiere, it's OK!!! Here's the link so you can watch it again, and again and again. piped.video/bmWQqAKLgT4
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"I've seen Webpack projects with a configuration file that's a thousand lines long." In this video, @youyuxi explains how Webpack shaped modern frontend development... and why it became a victim of its own success. Watch it here 👉 piped.video/yhcuXXl-Vb0
Early Vite users struggled to make Jest work. In one meeting, someone joked: “We need a Vite-native test runner, call it Vite Test.” Four hours later, a prototype existed. And that’s how Vitest was born 💥 Watch the full story 👇 🎥 piped.video/9au4xDYpOzo
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"It was a spaghetti mess..." And Vite came to fix it. Clip taken from our Vite documentary, out now on our YT channel!
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Need something to do between Vite documentary rewatches? How about listening to this podcast Evan did with @StackOverflow? 😏 ➡️ stackoverflow.blog/2025/10/1…
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Shoutout to @supabase for powering the Vite documentary! 💻💙 You build the tools devs love and now you helped us tell their story. Thank you! 🤗
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And that's what a labour of love looks like 🫶
I spent 77 days this year editing the Vite documentary. This is what the 39min Final Cut timeline looks like. Huge thanks to everyone involved! 🙏 Go watch it on Cult.Repo - link in bio
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Big thanks to @boltdotnew for powering the Vite documentary ⚡ You help make web magic happen, both on the silver screen and computer screens everywhere 🚀 Thank you!! 🙏
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A huge thank you to @Shopify for sponsoring the Vite documentary! 💡 Your support fuels independent storytelling and celebrates the platforms powering developers worldwide 🌍 thank you for partnering with us! 🤝
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Big thank you to @getsentry for backing the Vite documentary 🛠️ You keep devs sane and helped us tell the story of Vite! So we'd say you're a lot more than "not bad." 😉
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Cult.Repo retweeted
Congratulations to @CultRepo on the new @vite_js Documentary release! Recognize the office in the doc? It's ours 👀 Be sure to check out the full film if you haven't already: piped.video/watch?v=bmWQqAKL…
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Cult.Repo retweeted
Excited to see this finally go live!! Vite transformed the web ecosystem, now the #1 build tool globally. But it started from very humble beginnings… Kudos to @youyuxi & team on this amazing achievement, and so happy I & @boltdotnew have been able to play a small part 🫡
Let's hear it for the UN of Javascript! Vite: The Documentary is finally here. If you missed the premiere, it's OK!!! Here's the link so you can watch it again, and again and again. piped.video/bmWQqAKLgT4
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Top tier. Must watch. 10/10. 5 Star letterbox score.
Let's hear it for the UN of Javascript! Vite: The Documentary is finally here. If you missed the premiere, it's OK!!! Here's the link so you can watch it again, and again and again. piped.video/bmWQqAKLgT4
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Cult.Repo retweeted
We loved sponsoring this film and we're so happy it's finally here 💜 Take a peek! 👇
Let's hear it for the UN of Javascript! Vite: The Documentary is finally here. If you missed the premiere, it's OK!!! Here's the link so you can watch it again, and again and again. piped.video/bmWQqAKLgT4
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Time to thank the companies who made the Vite documentary happen – we actually can't make these docs without their support! 🙏 And we'll kick things off with @voidzerodev 🙌 We're honoured to have been trusted to tell a big part of your story, so thank you!⚡
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Best friends ❤️
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And to the companies that made it happen: @VoidZero @Sentry @Shopify @boltdotnew @Supabase
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HUGE thanks to everyone who gave their time: @youyuxi @antfu7 @RyanCarniato @FredKSchott @pcattori @markdalgleish mhevery @EricSimons @zeeg @theo Matias Capeletto, Rich Harris, Bjorn Lu, Dominik Göpel, Vladimir Sheremet
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