1013: Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero

**Wes Bos** (0:00)
Cloudflare has acquired VoidZero, and we're going to be diving into all of that live here at JS Nation in Amsterdam.

**Scott Tolinski** (0:11)
I mean, this is sick.

**Wes Bos** (0:13)
Yeah, look at this.

**Scott Tolinski** (0:14)
Wicked conference, thousands of Europeans here. It's just excellent.

**CJ** (0:20)
It's a great time.

**Scott Tolinski** (0:20)
Stoked to be here, but this is fun. Look at this set. We got multiple cams. Cam 1, cam 2, cam 1, cam 2

**CJ** (0:27)
Sorry for that.

**Scott Tolinski** (0:27)
I just got one. CJ cam.

**Wes Bos** (0:29)
There's three cams and we're in the same room. That's amazing. Yeah. We're all going to actually chat.

**Scott Tolinski** (0:34)
Yeah, that's true.

**Wes Bos** (0:36)
The big news obviously that we're going to be talking about, as we said up top, was that Cloudflare has acquired VoidZero, the creators of Void, Vite Plus, Vite, these things that we know and love. That's big news even though they haven't acquired Vite itself. Vite is going to remain open source. It has its own team of collaborators.

**Scott Tolinski** (0:58)
Well, in fact, they've put up a bunch of money towards the open source part, a million bucks towards it, which is awesome. So, don't run to the comments just yet. I feel good about Cloudflare, the company. What do you think about them acquiring? I feel good about the future of Vite.

**Wes Bos** (1:15)
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, out of all the companies that could have acquired Vite, or they didn't acquire Vite, I shouldn't say that, VoidZero, I mean, Cloudflare seems like the best bet to me.
I have nothing but good vibes with Cloudflare personally, because I host so much stuff there, and I tend to like all their stuff. So that's just me though.

**Scott Tolinski** (1:35)
Yes. So let's talk about why.
Why did they do this and why is it exciting? So Vite, we're going to call it Vite. Everyone gets mad that they acquired Vite. We get it. It's a company called VoidZero, run by Evan Yu.

**Wes Bos** (1:48)
But they didn't acquire Vite.

**Scott Tolinski** (1:50)
They didn't.

**Wes Bos** (1:50)
Not the maintainers of Vite even, just the creator.

**Scott Tolinski** (1:54)
Yes.
I think everybody understands that. But so we talked about VitePlus a couple months ago. VitePlus is this new CLI tool that encompasses everything. You got your linting, your formatting, your building, all of that in one single CLI tool, which is fantastic. I've been using it myself for all of my projects going forward.

**Wes Bos** (2:18)
I was going to say, CJ, are you using VitePlus?

**CJ** (2:20)
I haven't yet. I tried it.

**Wes Bos** (2:22)
Yes.

**CJ** (2:22)
But next project, I probably will. Just because it scaffolds everything.
You don't have to have a separate config file for everything. It's a single config. It seems nice. I haven't tried it yet, but it seems nice.

**Wes Bos** (2:33)
Yes. I'm also using VitePlus for everything right now, because it was fairly trivial to switch over. Any new projects, I'm just defaulting to that.

**Scott Tolinski** (2:43)
The only thing I don't like is that when you do VP, what is it, new or whatever, whatever you use to scaffold the new project, there's no way to scaffold it in the current folder. It always creates a second folder.

**Wes Bos** (2:55)
Okay.

**Scott Tolinski** (2:55)
But I'll log a bug for that.

**Wes Bos** (2:58)
For me, I'm still waiting on full svelte support for this Oxlint and Format stuff. It's coming and it's starting to come in here, but I'm still waiting on it to fully replace ESLint.

**Scott Tolinski** (3:08)
So let's talk about why would Cloudflare even want this tooling. They could have slot forked it.
They could have just made their own. They could have like, Cloudflare itself has gotten so much better since they integrated Vite into it. They have this awesome Cloudflare Vite plugin, which allows you to access your environmental variables inside of it. You don't have to fuss with webpack bundling. You can just run TypeScript directly. It's gotten quite a bit better and VoidZero themselves have kind of launched like two things, right? They launched Vite Plus, which we talked about, and then they also were working on this product called Void, which was a way to like host or deploy applications, and it was entirely built on the Cloudflare stack.

**Wes Bos** (3:57)
Can we call Void a framework?

**Scott Tolinski** (4:00)
Yes. Yeah, Void was a framework. It was a JavaScript framework that had routing and adapt.

**CJ** (4:05)
It still is. You're saying had, but it still is, right?