136: VoidZero Wants to be the Laravel of JavaScript

About this episode

The episode discusses the rebranding of Eleventy to Build Awesome and the launch of Vite+ by VoidZero.

JavaScript framework Eleventy has been renamed Build Awesome, 1.5 years after joining the Font Awesome stable. The name change precedes Build Awesome Pro, which will offer premium features alongside the features Eleventy users know and love. Today the Awesomeverse got a little awesomer. The VoidZero team also open-sourced Vite+, which is a unified toolchain and entry point to web app development that manages runtime, package manager, and frontend toolchain all in one. Since being acquired by ...

People in this episode

Hosts: TJ VanToll, Paige Niedringhaus, Jack Herrington

Topics covered

• JavaScript
• frameworks
• web development
• open source
• toolchain

Keywords

• Eleventy
• Build Awesome
• VoidZero
• Vite+
• JavaScript framework
• web app development
• open source

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Eleventy, Build Awesome, Font Awesome, VoidZero

Products: Vite+

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