Evan You officially announced antfu's involvement in Vite Devtools — exciting!
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On April 4, 2025, around noon Beijing time, Evan You and antfu almost simultaneously posted on social media, sharing that they will be collaborating on a product called VoidZero — speculation is that it could be Vite Plus. You can learn more from Evan You’s conference talk: https://www.luckysnail.cn/posts/post-50
Below is the official announcement image:
Translation of the above content:
Evan You: The core strength of Vite is Developer Experience (DX), and if there’s one person best suited to develop Vite Devtools, it’s none other than @antfu7!
VoidZero: We’re excited to announce that we will be collaborating with @nuxtlabs, with @antfu7 leading the development of Vite Devtools!
Evan You: Our development plans include:
- Plugin pipeline inspection (built on top of vite-plugin-inspect)
- Bundle size analysis, leveraging Rolldown’s metadata for tree-shaking visualization
- Barrel file detection
- CJS/ESM module usage visualization
- Vite environment configuration visualization
- Actionable optimization suggestions (improving bundle size and frontend performance)
- Time‑based bundle size reporting
- Support for both development and build phases via CLI arguments or UI
Most importantly: completely framework‑agnostic, serving the entire Vite ecosystem!