🚀 CodeTalks #4: Must-Watch Talks on Vue & Vite Ecosystem for Developers
Discover the latest insights on Vue, Vite and JavaScript tooling from top industry experts.
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Welcome to the fourth edition of CodeTalks, your go-to source for the most insightful and impactful conference talks in the JavaScript ecosystem.
This week, we’re diving deep into the Vue and Vite ecosystem, curating five standout talks that every frontend developer should watch.
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Vite and the Future of JavaScript Tooling
🎤 Speaker: Evan You
📍 Conference: Javascript Day 2024Summary: Evan You, the creator of Vue.js, discusses Vite’s rapid adoption, surpassing 15 million weekly downloads and becoming the default for frameworks like Vue, Svelte, and React. He highlights the inefficiencies of juggling multiple tools like esbuild, Rollup, and SWC and introduces VoidZero—a new initiative to unify JavaScript tooling with a high-performance, open-source toolchain.
Turbocharged JavaScript with Handcrafted WASM
🎤 Speaker: Justin Schroeder
📍 Conference: VueConf US 2024🔑 Summary: Justin Schroeder explores the power of WebAssembly (WASM) and its ability to supercharge JavaScript performance. He showcases WASM’s real-world applications, from a particle simulator to Conway's Game of Life, and explains how it enables high-performance computing directly in the browser. 🚀
From Your Perspective – A Nerdy Journey
🎤 Speaker: Gant Laborde
📍 Conference: VueConf US 2024🔑 Summary: Gant Laborde takes developers on a deep dive into 3D transformations, computer graphics, and linear algebra. Learn how image warping, OCR, and 4x4 matrices play a crucial role in real-world applications like gaming and animation.
Understanding the Vue SFC Compiler
🎤 Speaker: Zhao Jinjiang (Vue.js Team Member)
📍 Conference: CITYJS CONFERENCE🔑 Summary: Zhao Jinjiang breaks down the Vue Single-File Component (SFC) compiler, explaining how Vue’s structure improves frontend code organization. He also introduces Bit, a platform for reusable components, and compares it with Vue SFCs.
Vite and the Future of JavaScript Tooling
🎤 Speaker: Evan You
📍 Conference: Nuxt Nation 2024
Summary: At Nuxt Nation 2024, Evan You further explains VoidZero’s mission: to streamline JavaScript development by integrating a single parser, transformer, and bundler. Built in a compile-to-native language for maximum performance, this toolchain offers modular components that work independently while providing first-class support for Vue.js.
🎉 Bonus: Highlights from ViteConf 2024
📍 Event: ViteConf 2024 (October 3rd, Online)
🔑 Highlights:
Vite 6 Environment API – Improved configuration for client, server, and workers.
Rolldown – A new Rust-based bundler powered by OXC, promising faster builds.
Enhanced integrations with Angular, React, and developer tools.
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