Tales from the Void: June 2026 Recap

Welcome to another edition of Tales from the Void!

Regularly, we recap the project updates for Void, Vite+, Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and what’s happening in our community.

Vite+ enters beta ​

Vite+, the unified toolchain for the web, is now in beta.

Vite+ gives you one entry point to web development. It manages your runtime and package manager and ties Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, tsdown, Oxlint, and Oxfmt into one tested stack instead of a pile of tools you wire up yourself. It's open source under the MIT license and works for any web project, from CLIs to libraries to web apps.

You learn one workflow and reuse it everywhere: vp dev, vp check, vp test, vp build, vp pack, and vp run. As your team and codebase grow, tool versions stay aligned, you share configuration once, and CI runs the same commands you run locally.

Since the alpha, we shipped more than a dozen versions and merged over 500 pull requests. Those releases brought smarter caching, smoother migrations, enterprise features, and over 180 fixes. More than 1,300 public repositories already depend on vite-plus.

Start a new project with vp create, or bring Vite+ into an existing one with vp migrate.

Read the full Vite+ beta announcement for more details.

Project Updates ​

Vite+ ​

• The vite-plus binary is now 20% smaller on Windows and 5% smaller on Linux and macOS thanks to trimming unused dependencies.
• Vite+ is now built with the help of Vite+, shaving off ~22s from the build time thanks to caching the docs build command. This reduces the whole pipeline time by ~11% if docs did not change.

Vite ​

• Vite 8.1 got released and comes with the new experimental bundled dev mode, making your dev server startup even faster.
• The Vite React template now uses Oxlint by default, ensuring that your React code is following best practices and avoiding common pitfalls.

Vitest ​

• From Vitest 5 on, the webdriverio provider will live in its own independent package.
• The Vitest Visual Regression Guide got a major update. Check it out if you haven't already.

Rolldown ​

• Rolldown made rendering of diagnostics more performant, drastically reducing the build time of projects relying on them.
• tsconfig.path aliases now resolve from .vue / .svelte files as well, making it easier to use Rolldown with those frameworks.

Oxc ​

• The Oxc transformer became ~2.5% faster thanks to continued work in the parser, semantics, the transformer itself and the codegen part of Oxc.
• Oxc core team member Connor Shea improved Oxlint's jest/vitest rules to run faster than before.
• Yagiz Nizipli found several hot path optimizations, making Oxlint rules even faster than they were already.
• Oxlint has now experimental support for the rust-based React Compiler and its lint rules.

Upcoming Events ​

To catch talks and presentations from VoidZero team members, see the following events where they will present:

• Save the date ViteConf 2026: October 15th. Returning it's roots, ViteConf will be 100% online again.
• Join Evan You, Jerry Zhao, and Charles Wang at Vue x ViteConf China in Shanghai on July 18th.
• Catch VoidZero & Cloudflare Strategy Lead, Michael Dong, speak at Cloudflare Connect on Tour in Sydney, Australia on July 30th.

From The Community ​

• Evan You joined the MonkCast to talk about the acquisition of VoidZero by Cloudflare, Vite+, and the future of Vite.
• The Syntax crew is covering the Cloudflare acquisition of VoidZero in one of their latest podcast episodes.
• Rita Kozlov and Steve Faulkner from Cloudflare joined devtools.fm to talk about the ecosystem impact of the acquisition and what it means for open source and for Cloudflare.
• Oxc core team member Yuji Sugiura gave an introduction to Oxfmt during a Cloudflare Workers Tech Talk in Kyoto, Japan. Worth taking a look if you want to learn more about Oxfmt and how it works.
• Astro 7.0 shipped with Vite 8 under the hood and a new Rust compiler.
• The next minor version of Nuxt 4 will ship with Vite 8 as well once it releases.
• The first beta of Vinext, the Next-compatible framework based on Vite, has been published.
• Medal published a blog post about how they trimmed down their Electron bundle with Vite and Rolldown.
• Contributor bhbs was happy to see their chunk import map feature land in Vite, which prevents cascading cache invalidation across deploys.
• There's a new free, interactive Jest/Vitest course that runs right in the browser, teaching testing fundamentals like assertions, mocks, and async testing across 19 lessons.