Tales from the Void: May 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.

VoidZero joins Cloudflare ​

Last week, VoidZero officially became part of Cloudflare

What doesn't change:

• Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ remain open-source, vendor-neutral and MIT-licensed.
• Evan and the rest of the VoidZero team continue to lead these open-source projects.

VoidZero was founded in 2023 to make JavaScript developers more productive. Since then we've built Vite+, Rolldown, Oxlint, Oxfmt while improving Vite and Vitest.

VoidZero has collaborated with Cloudflare since the Vite Environment API and Cloudflare’s Vite plugin. Our deployment platform, Void, is built on Cloudflare. By joining together, we can keep focusing on what we do best while making Cloudflare a better platform to deploy Vite apps on.

We believe this acquisition is a great fit for VoidZero both strategically and culturally, and are excited for this new chapter.

Read more in our full announcement post and Cloudflare's post.

Project Updates ​

Vite+ ​

• Vite+ supports staged publishing via vp pm staged now.
• Vite+ will prompt you if native packages are built against a different node version than the one you're using, ensuring that you don't accidentally run stale packages.
• The next version of VS Code will include vp as option for the npm.scriptRunner setting, making it easier to use Vite+ for running scripts and tasks in VS Code.
• Vite+ adds a built-in Oxlint rule that guards against old imports to vite & vitest instead of Vite+, which can cause subtle bugs.
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Vite ​

• The Vite team has published several security advisories and patches for them. Make sure to update to the latest Vite 8 or Vite+ release to get the fixes.

Vitest ​

• Vitest is planning to become engine-agnostic. Share your thoughts in the discussion.
• Vitest 5 will include a rewritten benchmarking API that is now part of the test itself instead of being a test on its own, allowing for more flexible benchmarking and better integration.

Rolldown ​

Rolldown, the Rust-based bundler powering Vite 8, reached v1.0. If you're already on Vite 8 or the latest Rolldown RC, the upgrade requires no code or config changes.

Rolldown 1.0 means:

• API stability: the plugin API, options, and types are covered by semver going forward.
• Stable build output: internals like chunking and dead code elimination will still improve in minor versions, but your build output won't change shape between them.
• Rollup plugin compatibility: drop-in plugin replacement so the existing ecosystem keeps working out of the box.

Builds run 10-30x faster than Rollup, on par with esbuild. Adopters like Ramp, Beehiiv, and Mercedes-Benz.io report build time reductions of up to 64%.

The 1.0 milestone also unlocks adoption for teams with "no pre-1.0 dependency" policies and gives plugin authors a stable target to invest in.

Read the full Rolldown 1.0 announcement for the details.

Oxc ​

• Oxlint now has an agent output mode with one-line diagnostics and no summary to save tokens when used as an LLM guardrail.
• Oxfmt is up to 25% faster thanks to internal performance improvements
• Oxfmt supports formatting Svelte files.
• The Oxc team is experimenting with integrating the Rust-based React Compiler preview.

Upcoming Events ​

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

• Join Alexander Lichter at JS Nation 2026 in Amsterdam on June 11th, where he'll be speaking about how Vite got rustified.
• Alexander Lichter will join enterJS 2026 in Mannheim, Germany on June 16th.

From The Community ​

• Alexander Lichter presented Vite+, the unified JavaScript toolchain, at Laravel Live Japan, which was recapped in a blog post by Sen Corporation [in Japanese].
• Marvin Hagemeister wrote about a 50% Oxlint and Oxfmt speed improvement in projects with a lot of directories.
• Brandon Roberts shared a guide on deploying Angular applications to Void and walks through project setup, the void.json config, and a one-command deploy to the edge.
• Oxc team member Cam McHenry built oxc_checker, is a highly experimental type checker that aims to add type resolution and inference for Oxc-based tooling.
• Evil Martians recommend Oxlint and Oxfmt as the fast tools to lint only changed files, urging developers to stop writing rules in AGENTS.md and instead lean on agent and git hooks.
• Rijk van Zanten, CTO of Directus, highlighted how Rust tools like Oxc and Rolldown are already shaping the ecosystem in his talk on Rust-inspired TypeScript.
• Puru released bundle-roast, a package analyzer built on top of Rolldown that reports real Brotli sizes and the full transitive dependency tree (with a side of roasting) to help you keep bundles lean.
• Deep Sarkar posted about his first contribution to Vite+.
• The Syntax folks recommend vp check as LLM guardrail in their latest potluck episode.
• Chromatic gave a sneak peek at Vitest visual testing, bringing snapshot-based visual regression testing to Vitest's Browser Mode.