137: Netlify Enters the AI App Builder Race

About this episode

The episode discusses the launch of Netlify Start and the new features of Vite 8.

This week the VoidZero team shipped Vite 8. It’s using Rolldown under the hood and boasting 30x faster builds, full plugin compatibility, integrated devtools, and a searchable registry for all plugins. Co-host Jack has officially joined Netlify as a Principal Developer Experience Engineer and announces the launch of Netlify Start. Start a new Netlify project with a prompt on the site, and see it built and deployed in minutes, and keep iterating on it from there. The Node.js team is changing t...

People in this episode

Host: Jack Herrington

Topics covered

• AI App Builder
• Netlify
• Vite
• Developer Experience
• Web Development

Keywords

• Netlify
• Vite 8
• AI App Builder
• Developer Experience
• Web Development

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Netlify

Products: Vite 8, Netlify Start

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