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TL;DR: Through our partnership with NuxtLabs, Anthony Fu will work on creating Vite DevTools, a tool that will offer deeper and more insightful debugging and analysis for all projects and frameworks built on top of Vite.
At VoidZero, we place a strong emphasis on developer experience. While Vite and Rolldown already deliver outstanding performance and modern features, we believe that transparency in the bundling process is just as essential. By making this process easy to inspect and understand, we aim to empower developers with the knowledge and tools they need to optimize their applications and enhance the overall end-user experience.
To achieve that, VoidZero is partnering with NuxtLabs to build Vite DevTools - a powerful debugging and analysis toolkit aimed at improving both developer workflows and application performance. Designed for universal compatibility across all frameworks built on Vite, Vite DevTools will deliver deeper visibility into the build process, helping developers produce leaner, more efficient frontend bundles that result in faster, more seamless experiences for end users.
As part of this collaboration, Anthony Fu — who previously created Nuxt DevTools and vite-plugin-inspect - will be working part-time on Vite DevTools. vite-plugin-inspect is a powerful tool that allows developers to inspect the internal workings of Vite, providing insights into how their applications are being built and optimized. Anthony's extensive experience in the Vite ecosystem, including his work on multiple devtools, will be instrumental in advancing this project.
Vite DevTools aims to deliver a rich set of features that provide actionable insights. Initial capabilities under consideration include:
- Plugin pipeline inspection (adapted from
vite-plugin-inspect) - Bundle analysis, leveraging Rolldown's metadata
- Tree-shaking visualization
- Barrel files detection
- CJS/ESM adoption visualization
- Visualization of Vite environment configurations
- Actionable suggestions to improve bundle size and front-end performance
- Time-based bundle reporting
- Availability during both development and build phases via a command-line flag or interface
We invite the community to follow the progress and contribute ideas via this discussion.
We’re thrilled to collaborate with NuxtLabs and Anthony to push the boundaries of what modern tooling can offer, and we look forward to making Vite DevTools an indispensable part of every developer's workflow.
