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.

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.

For many years, we have migrated all our devtools to Node.js for the sake of simplicity: a common language (JS/TS), a large ecosystem (NPM), and a powerful engine. In the meantime, we moved a lot of computation tasks to the client-side thanks to PWA and JavaScript Hegemony.
So we made Webapps for years, developing with awesome reactive frameworks and bundling a lot of dependencies. We progressively moved from our simplicity to complex apps toolchains. We've become the new Java-like ecosystem. It sucks.
It's 2021, we've got a lot of new technologies to sustain our Users eXperience. It's time to have a break and rethink our tools rather than going faster and faster in the same direction. It's time to redesign the Developer eXperience. It's time for a bundle-free dev environment. It's time to embrace a new frontend building philosophy, still with our lovely JavaScript.
Introducing Snowpack, Vite, Astro, and other Bare Modules tools concepts!