Evan You’s next big adventure

October 3, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

VoidZero: A Next-Generation Toolchain for JavaScript — Not content to have merely created Vue.js and Vite, JavaScript powerhouse Evan You has unveiled his latest adventure: a $4.6m funded company building an open-source unified development toolchain for the JavaScript ecosystem. With his track record, this is as good an attempt as it gets.

Evan You

Run GitHub Actions Up to 2x Faster at Half the Cost — Blacksmith runs your GitHub Actions substantially faster by running them on modern gaming CPUs. Integrating Blacksmith is a one-line code change. 100+ companies like Ashby, Superblocks, and Slope use Blacksmith to help developers merge code faster.

Blacksmith

RELEASES:

  • Eleventy / 11ty 3.0 – Node.js-powered static site generator.

  • Tabulator 6.3 – Popular interactive table / data grid control.

  • Jiti 2.0 – Runtime TypeScript and ESM support for Node.js.

  • pnpm 9.12 – The alternative, efficient package manager.

📒 Articles & Tutorials

▶  Bundling: The Past, Present and Future — A history lesson on bundlers, why they’re used, the problems they solve, the current ecosystem, and a look at the potential future for these tools.

Devon Govett

🛠 Code & Tools

🤖 assistant-ui: React Components for AI Chat — It doesn’t just give you the interface components, but has integrations for Vercel AI, Langchain, and talking to other common LLM APIs (e.g. OpenAI), enabling you to build your own in-house AI chat system quickly. Examples.

Simon Farshid