Post #300931

2025-05-16 16:27 UTC

I am very happy that today we merged the pull request switching the Mastodon frontend build chain from the very old (and outdated) Webpack 4 to @vite ⚡️ It is not visible to end-users but it will greatly improve the developer experience with working on the Mastodon frontend and opens the door for many good things. I started the initial work 2 years ago, then @chaosexanima took over and got it over the finish line 🚀 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/34450 #mastodev

Replies (7)

@renchap@oisaur.com 2025-05-16 16:34

@vite@m.webtoo.ls @chaosexanima@tech.lgbt We also migrated from Jest to @vitest@m.webtoo.ls, and removed 30% of our (indirect) Javascript package dependencies

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@alex@tech.lgbt 2025-05-16 17:38

@renchap@oisaur.com @vite@m.webtoo.ls @chaosexanima@tech.lgbt Congrats! I'm a big fan of Vite, it's been a big improvement at my workplace

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@grooovinger@mastodon.social 2025-05-16 18:32

@renchap@oisaur.com @vite@m.webtoo.ls @chaosexanima@tech.lgbt congrats! This ia huge! We're close to merging the very same thing (wepack->vite) in the coming weeks as well, can't wait to get this out the door. We also started experimenting and exploring ~ 2 years ago, so I feel your excitement!

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@moritzdietz@mastodon.social 2025-05-16 20:52

@renchap@oisaur.com @vite@m.webtoo.ls @chaosexanima@tech.lgbt 👏 congrats!! That's huge

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@benefant@det.social 2025-05-20 20:03

@renchap@oisaur.com @vite@m.webtoo.ls @chaosexanima@tech.lgbt 👏

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@ricard@ricard.social 2025-05-21 19:26

@renchap@oisaur.com @vite@m.webtoo.ls @chaosexanima@tech.lgbt Thank you!

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@mintydev@mastodon.social 2025-05-29 12:24

@renchap@oisaur.com @vite@m.webtoo.ls @chaosexanima@tech.lgbt Vite is great! I wish Next JS also ran on Vite (although it seems like that might be possible soon, given the changes in Next JS v15.3).

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