Renaud Chaput
@renchap@oisaur.com
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am very happy that today we merged the pull request switching the Mastodon frontend build chain from the very old (and outdated) Webpack 4 to @vite 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
May 16, 2025 at 4:27:42 PM
@vite @chaosexanima We also migrated from Jest to @vitest, and removed 30% of our (indirect) Javascript package dependencies
Congrats! I'm a big fan of Vite, it's been a big improvement at my workplace
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!
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!
congrats!! That's huge
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).
