Now that a few weeks have passed since the ViteConf 24 live marathon, let’s take a moment and look back at what the ecosystem shared with us during the event. It is a bit unreal that this was the third edition of ViteConf. Two years ago, when we started hosting the event, we couldn’t have imagined how much the Vite ecosystem would grow. The ViteConf stage was once again a great showcase of the ongoing collaboration and innovation from web frameworks, tools, and plugins in the ecosystem. Vite reached 15M npm weekly downloads by the time of ViteConf 24. This is double from last year! And it has already grown another 1M in the last weeks. The Vite core repo also reached 1K contributors just in time for the conference. We keep building together, lightning fast. Like previous years, ViteConf was free, around the globe event designed to help the community and maintainers in the ecosystem connect. If you were in the chat with us during that 24-hour of non-stop discussions, you know how special this event is for all of us.
The Vite Ecosystem party
With 35k members of our community registering for the event, this edition was the biggest so far. It was no surprise, as the roster was packed once more with incredible speakers. We want to thank each of them for all the efforts they put into their talks and for participating in the live event discussing with attendees and hopefully encouraging them to get involved in some of our open-source projects. Their efforts made this the most watched ViteConf yet and already pushed the views in our channel to 340k views.
A week full of announcements
We suggest you watch the complete conference, as each talk had a lot of insights into what the different teams in the ecosystem have been up to. You can watch the 12-hour stream at the ViteConf 24 Replay, where you can jump to the talks you are interested in from the schedule. Or if you’d like to get a daily dose of Vite ecosystem updates, subscribe to the ViteConf YouTube Channel. We’ve been publishing 2 talks per day as individual videos following the conference schedule.
It will take a full book to recap everything that happened, but let’s review together some of the biggest announcements. First, Evan You kick-started ViteConf’s week by unveiling two days before the conference that he founded VoidZero Inc., a company dedicated to building an open-source, high-performance, and unified development toolchain for the JavaScript ecosystem. The day before the conference, the Vite project got a facelift with a new domain and landing page. Bookmark Vite’s new home: vite.dev. In his keynote, Evan shared the roadmap for Vite, Oxc, and Rolldown. And Boshen Chen did a deep dive into the new Rust-based future.
Vite isn’t only getting faster. It is also about to get even more flexible with the introduction of the new Environment API in Vite 6. Several talks showed why the ecosystem is excited about the new possibilities (I did an overview in my talk, Anthony Fu shared next steps, and many use cases from framework and runtime maintainers like Ryan Carniato, Igor Minar, and Rich Harris)
In the StackBlitz keynote, we announced Bolt, combining AI and WebContainers to create a unique tool to prompt into existence your next Vite apps. The uptake in usage in the past weeks has exceeded everyone’s expectations and there is now a community forming around Bolt’s Open Source version. We also announced TutorialKit 1.0, which lets you create interactive tutorials for your full-stack projects, and showcased the wide adoption of pkg.pr.new for continuous releases. This year we introduced ViteConf Workshops and hosted Beyond the Chat: AI-Assisted Coding Evolved where we covered the bolt.new origin story, how frontier AI models have changed the game for AI generation, and how bolt.new works.
Storybook once more had big announcements. They are doubling down on the Vite ecosystem, basing their new Component Testing feature on Vitest. They also showed their new @storybook/experimental-nextjs-vite plugin to be able to use these features in your Next.js apps by building them with Vite.
And speaking of testing, this year we had 3 Vitest talks! This shows the importance the Vite-native testing frameworks gained in the community, now representing a third of Vite npm downloads. We even renamed the #viteconf channel to #vitestconf for a while during the live stream!
We had ten talks from framework teams. It is great to see how frameworks keep evolving focusing on what makes them unique, and converging in common patterns and shared libraries (Volar, Nitro, Vinxi, and so many other pieces that are creating an incredible meta-framework toolkit). There were talks from the Remix and Ember teams, representing the many who joined the ecosystem since the last ViteConf. And Nate sent waves in the React Native landscape once again announcing One in his talk, a new React framework for web and native, built on Vite.
We had talks from runtimes before, but this was the first ViteConf that counted with a Node talk. We sincerely appreciate the presence of Joyee Cheung in this edition. She showed what’s next with Node module loader, and made a lot of us hopeful for a smoother transition for the ecosystem from CJS to ESM.
This was also the first time we had a Production section. Among others, Jason Miller shared Shopify’s experience scaling Vite and Irina Nazarova showcased how they are using Vite Ruby to improve their client apps.
A special shoutout to Sarah Rainsberger, Astro’s docs lead, for MCing the event and giving an insightful talk about Docs as Community. And talking about community efforts, the e18e initiative to clean up packages in the JS ecosystem also got several shoutouts during the event. In particular, check out Bjorn Lu’s Performance talk if you want to get involved.
Alvaro Saburido showed us the behind the scene of the Pyraminx game from ViteConf 24 homepage. It was built with TresJS and runs a Vite dev server entirely in your browser tab thanks for WebContainers. You can still play the game, we’re waiting for someone to find the eastern egg after it is solved!
Building together, lighting fast
ViteConf 2024 was hosted by StackBlitz and once more, we’d like to do a shoutout to our Community Partners who help us invite the community to ViteConf.
Once more, thanks so much to everyone who participated in making this edition of ViteConf a blast! See y’all at ViteConf 2025!
