Evan You

@evanyou315k followers

Husband / Father of two / Founder @voidzerodev (acq. @cloudflare) / Creator @vuejs & @vite_js. Chinese-only alt: @yuxiyou

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1Oct 1, '24Announcing @voidzerodev: a company building the next-generation unified toolchain for JavaScript. We are the creators and core-contributors of Vite, Vitest, Rolldown and Oxc - and 21.6×955k4k535465
2Jan 23, '25Honest opinion: Next is not the best option for interaction-heavy apps like . Especially app router with RSC.18.3×807k1.6k59541
3Aug 6, '23Thank you JavaScript.16.5×727k6.2k221137
4Mar 11, '23People can literally use your software for free (and make money with it) for five years and then only shit on it like every aspect of it sucks when asked how they feel about it.11.6×513k2.5k107101
5Jan 5, '25I’m Asian and I prefer Asian food over western food. I guess that makes all westerners mentally ill.8.5×375k3.1k149192
6Jul 5, '24Congrats! This is impressive especially for someone who’s not a web dev. But it’s always relatively easy to get something working for the one specific scenario. I got Vite’s initia8.4×370k2.2k84441
7Jun 16, '23Damn it, literally just moved to Google Domains a few months ago7.8×345k1.6k4639
8Oct 17, '25Hmmm7.8×342k2k9104
9Jul 29, '25This just happened 👀7.7×339k3.5k25196
10Oct 5, '23The cat is out of the bag: we are working on Rolldown, a rust port of Rollup. 🦀 - Focus: performance with best-effort compatibility with Rollup - Goal: replace esbuild and Rollup 7.6×336k2.3k294143
11Feb 17, '23Just had a company asking me to complete an 82-question security questionnaire so that *they* can use Vue Devtools, for free. Ironically the compliance questionnaire service they a6.9×306k2.1k8842
12Nov 23, '23Running a benchmark where Bun looks 40x faster than Node Turns out Bun doesn't implement fs.readdir with recursive: true so it's reading just 2 files instead of hundreds😅6.9×305k1.3k5181
13Aug 30, '24If React was “just JavaScript” why are there rules of hooks and why does it need a compiler to fix those problems?6.9×303k1.5k68148
14Apr 1, '23I’ve decided to rewrite the Vue compiler in Zig, it’s going to be blazing fast.6.8×300k1.8k7434
15May 7, '24At the new @vercel HQ6.7×297k1.5k2326
16Mar 15, '24Just found out that the new @Porsche official site is built with @astrodotbuild + @vuejs (v3)!6.3×280k1.9k102151
17Feb 18, '25Based on what I gathered, it feels the React team's hesitance on Vite (and build tooling in general) is how it aligns with their vision of React (i.e. RSC being the recommended par5.6×248k2.3k100253
18Aug 16, '19Software development gets tremendously harder when you start to have to convince people instead of just writing the code5.4×05.7k1.3k63
19Apr 22, '25Vibe coding5.3×235k4.6k113385
20Mar 8, '24Rolldown is open source! The Rust-based bundler designed for the future of Vite. It is still a work in progress, but it's now in a state that we are happy to share with the communi5.2×231k1.7k195141
21Mar 13, '24Devin is not really beyond what I imagined it would be like - and to be honest, quite underwhelming. A developer that gets things done only 13% of the time is a liability not an as5.1×227k1.6k136137
22Mar 23, '25In case you haven’t noticed - every single notable framework out there except Next.js is either built on top of Vite or using Vite to some extent. So yeah when you switch away from4.7×209k2.9k85224
23Feb 4, '23Sign me up4.6×205k1.5k6216
24Jan 6, '24Not many know this but you can do this in a Vue SFC:4.4×194k1.8k200269
25Oct 19, '25oxfmt (the oxc-based formatter) is getting very close to ready! - 2-3x faster than Biome - 45x faster than Prettier - Better prettier conformance than Biome means switching won’t c4.1×183k1.8k129349
26May 11, '21This thread really is off the rails4.1×04.4k785116
27Jan 24, '25Hot take: if you constantly see “skill issue” as an excuse, it’s a sign that there is a design issue with the solution.4.0×177k1.6k114149
28Jun 20, '18This just arrived... 😍🙏 Thanks @reactjs team!3.9×04.4k8083
29Apr 16, '25lol what Figma is so out of touch now it’s sad to see3.9×173k1.5k4858
30Apr 11, '25Gemini 2.5 pro is really really good.3.9×170k1.6k52105
31Mar 1, '23is built with Vue / Nuxt 3✨3.4×151k1.3k12637
32Mar 20, '25There are lots of cool React libraries that have Vue equivalents: - Framer Motion -> Motion for Vue () - Radix UI -> Reka UI () - Shadcn -> Shadcn-vue () - React Three Fiber -> Tre3.3×147k1.9k2041.1k
33Jul 3, '20It's working 😍3.2×03.8k39095
34Aug 21, '18(new BabyGirl()).helloWorld()3.1×04.2k19213
35May 3, '24👀 one more thing...3.1×135k2k124111
36Oct 29, '21So… React is now a Meta framework?3.0×03.7k38729
37Feb 3, '24Time flies! Can't believe it's been 10 years already...2.9×128k1.4k7120
38Apr 22, '25GitLab is reporting up to 100x less memory used and 2.6x faster builds (2.5m to <40s) with rolldown-vite, without even fully enabling native plugins 🤯2.9×127k1.9k102207
39Apr 18, '18Over the years I’ve started to prefer code that is boring but easy to understand. I cringe when I crack open some dependency source code and find some “smart” abstractions that mak2.7×02.6k71515
40Aug 10, '18I just published “Vue CLI 3.0 is here!”2.6×02.3k84242
41Nov 10, '24Was very annoyed today when doing a Google search and seeing an AI summary claiming that 95% of Vue apps are using Vue 2, when in reality Vue 3 usage is now over two thirds of tota2.6×116k1.4k5772
42Jun 15, '18I hope React fans don't take it too seriously - GitHub stars is just one of many metrics and yes React is still ahead in terms of usage. I'm just glad there are so many devs loving2.6×02.8k5877
43Mar 21, '24Excited to announce the (long overdue) 1.0 release of VitePress, a Vite + Vue powered static site generator! You probably have already seen it in action if you've used the docs of 2.5×109k1.4k178138
44Oct 9, '18CSS is hard2.4×02.4k62811
45Sep 30, '18I just published “Plans for the Next Iteration of Vue.js”2.4×02k76248
46Nov 21, '21New workspace finally coming together2.3×03.1k66123
47Oct 17, '19What if I told you I made vdom faster than Svelte 🙀2.3×02.6k37434
49Jul 9, '25The main reason I am optimistic about the Vercel / Nuxt acquisition is how they have treated Svelte since acquiring it. If they do the same for Nuxt (which they claimed they will a2.3×100k1.4k7165
50Sep 21, '19Ironically I think TypeScript has helped me more with avoiding classes than using them. Vue 3 is a 100% TS codebase with 0 usage of classes.2.2×02.4k45265
51May 10, '23Now that’s breakfast with a Vue2.2×97k1.5k268
52Oct 13, '21Some personal news: I'm moving to Singapore! I've lived in the US for 15+ years and made my career here, but it's time for some change.2.2×03k8040
53Feb 19, '21Vue is powering NASA flight software 🤯2.2×02.4k43332
54Apr 13, '18Something I’ve been working on for the past 2 weeks: a fully Vue-powered static site generator2.1×01.9k59063
55Oct 25, '22I’m excited about turbopack (vercel’s Rust-based successor to webpack). A few thoughts:2.1×02.4k274157
56Sep 4, '19Reactivity with different tradeoffs2.1×02k471148
57Nov 26, '20I'm thankful to all Vue users, contributors and our team members. Thank you all for making the Vue community a great one. 💖2.1×02.9k1423
58Sep 25, '21I swear I won't open this until I finish the new docs2.1×03k6114
59Apr 23, '21Wait... Vue was used in what?2.0×02.6k26627
61Nov 6, '19Louis Vuitton running on Vue & Nuxt 🔥🔥🔥2.0×02.3k31050
62May 10, '21Just got an SMS message asking me if I'm interested in a remote React job... I mean, how the hell did the recruiter got my number?1.9×02.4k13522
63Sep 8, '21Join the dark side1.9×02.5k16462
64Apr 13, '21It still blows my mind that I can make a living by giving away all the code I write for free.1.9×02.6k12236
65May 23, '25A few days ago we hit a major milestone: Vite is now itself bundled by Rolldown! PR: In addition: - Vue 3.6 will also be bundled with Rolldown. - Many libraries adopting tsdown (),1.9×82k1.4k91106
66Dec 4, '21Workspace update1.8×02.4k69163
67Jun 21, '19A more accurate description of Vue 3: - No template syntax change - Significantly faster - Small breaking changes with minimal impact on typical template-centric usage - An opt-in 1.8×01.9k44214
68May 25, '19I interviewed for a Facebook internship when I was in grad school (probably 2011) and failed because I couldn't whiteboard prototypal inheritance. I only learned JS properly after 1.8×02k33071
69Apr 12, '19Pretty happy about this considering Vue wasn't even mentioned in previous years' SO surveys 😅1.8×02.1k32321
71Mar 11, '25I’ve always said if someone were to port tsc to a native language, it’s gotta be the TS team themselves. Very excited to see this going public (I knew it’s been in the works a whil1.7×75k1.5k3442
72Jul 2, '21Ok here it is:1.7×01.8k30672
73Nov 9, '24My daughter made this mini Vue for me 😍1.7×74k1.3k219
74Oct 31, '20Lol this is actually my birthday1.6×02.1k865
75Oct 26, '22When do we get Next.js 13 Pro Max1.6×02.2k14517
76Apr 9, '21Teaching Aaron math using the JS console... 😂 (Don't worry we are not getting into floating point numbers any time soon)1.6×02.3k8413
77Feb 13, '25From State of React 2024: "Vite has now overtaken Webpack, which is quite remarkable given how long Webpack has been around."1.5×67k1.4k7351
78Dec 18, '20You know how Google can make the web significantly faster? Enforce perf requirements for ads, not for apps.1.5×01.9k18518
79Feb 24, '22☮️🙏🇺🇦1.5×01.7k1845
80Nov 19, '18I think Vue got the highest satisfaction rating among frameworks in State of JS this year (91.2%) - thanks to our users, and we aim to do even better! Hope we can change the mind o1.4×01.5k31011
81Aug 6, '20I would consider it my failure if it takes 3 years to be good at writing Vue apps1.4×01.7k22118
82Sep 26, '20Thanks @github for the maintainer swag 😎1.4×02.1k587
83Aug 26, '20To demonstrate how flexible Vue 3 is, here are some just-because-I-can examples: Using Vue 3 w/ @_developit 's htm for no-build-step JSX:1.3×01.4k222118
84Sep 30, '21Vite really is turning out to be more than I expected: it's now being used with not just Vue, but React, Svelte, Solid, Marko, Astro, Shopify Hydrogen, plus integrations with Story1.3×01.7k12550
85Jul 21, '22The view from a restaurant called VUE1.3×01.8k5938
86Mar 19, '20So... the cat is out of the bag: Wikimedia is adopting Vue. HN has been bitter as usual, but before you jump to a conclusion:1.3×01.4k28633
87Jul 26, '20I've a joke about node_modules but it may be too deep for you1.3×01.6k1713
88Nov 28, '20I need to visit this place1.3×01.6k14028
89Dec 24, '20M1 mac is so fast I worry I'll be overly optimistic about the performance of my code1.2×01.7k7810
90Jan 5, '18So... @NASA is using @vuejs ;)1.2×01.3k3091
91Apr 20, '20As I was going to bed, I had an idea about a no-bundler dev setup (using native browser ES imports), but with support for Vue SFCs **with hot reload**. Now it's almost 6AM and I ha1.2×01.5k13543
92Dec 27, '18In 2018 I visited 6 cities, moved into a new house, had my 2nd baby, and saw Vue keep growing strong. Couldn't have asked for more, and I am sincerely grateful for all those who ha1.2×01.7k892
93Jun 24, '22Here’s a proposal: the new React docs should recommend Vite over CRA for beginners - or at least recommend a custom Vite based template if ESLint / testing are required (also shoul1.2×01.4k11097
94Nov 26, '21Year 5 of being an independent OSS developer and never regretted the decision. Truly grateful to the communities around Vue / Vite for making this possible. Love y'all. 💚1.2×01.7k668
95Nov 18, '202y+1m ago today... right before React Hooks was announced. This gathering sure spawned a lot of ideas 😂1.2×01.7k5417
96May 5, '21Writing the docs always takes longer than you think 😬1.2×01.6k1029
97Jul 2, '21👀1.2×01.4k13560
98Sep 30, '18View post on X1.1×01.6k955
99Mar 12, '19Working in Shanghai1.0×01.4k359
100Nov 30, '22Too many things going on in China in the past few days and I’m too distracted to write any code. It’s complicated - and all I can say is that I hope things get better in a peaceful0.9×01.3k4615

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