Reading up on Rolldown

Vite+ beta unifies runtime, package manager, and frontend tools like Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, and Oxlint into a single open-source CLI workflow for web projects.

Vite 8.1 introduces experimental bundled dev mode for faster startup in large apps, chunk import maps, Wasm ESM support, and moves toward Lightning CSS by default.

Astro 7.0 ships a Rust compiler, Rust-based Markdown pipeline, queue-based rendering, Vite 8 with Rolldown, advanced routing, route caching, and AI-friendly dev server modes.

VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare; the tools will remain open source and vendor-agnostic, with Cloudflare committing $1M to a Vite ecosystem fund.

Vite 8 replaces esbuild and Rollup with a single Rust-based bundler, Rolldown, delivering up to 10-30x faster builds.