Panel Discussion: Next Gen Build Tools

Vite is a new build tool that intends to provide a leaner, faster, and more friction-less workflow for building modern web apps. This talk will dive into the project's background, rationale, technical details and design decisions: what problem does it solve, what makes it fast, and how does it fit into the JS tooling landscape.

React provides a contract to developers- uphold certain rules, and React can efficiently and correctly update the UI. In this talk we'll explore these rules in depth, understanding the reasoning behind them and how they unlock new directions such as automatic memoization. 

Bun’s builtin JSX transpiler, hot reloads on the server, JSX prop punning, macro api, automatic package installs, console.log JSX support, 4x faster serverside rendering and more make Bun the best runtime for building React apps

Vite unbundled ESM dev server and fast HMR are game-changing for DX. But Vite also shines when building your production applications.This talk will dive into how the main pieces fit together to bundle and minify your code:Vite build as an opinionated Rollup setup.How esbuild is used as a fast TS and JSX transpile and a minifier.The production plugins pipeline.Modern frameworks (Nuxt, SvelteKit, Astro, among others) have chosen Vite, augmenting the DX and optimizations for their target use case.We'll discover Vite as a polished and extendable toolkit to craft optimized modern apps.