136: VoidZero Wants to be the Laravel of JavaScript

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 Cloudflare, the Astro team had their first big release with Astro 6.0, which includes a new dev server and build pipeline powered by Vite’s environment API so it can run the exact same production runtime during development. Other upgrades include a built-in Fonts API, request-time content, and a new experimental Rust compiler.

Timestamps:

0:54 - Eleventy becomes Build Awesome
5:40 - VoidZero announces Vite+ alpha
10:38 - Astro 6.0
15:39 - Mozilla is working on a big Firefox redesign
17:53 - The Chrome team is looking for feedback on focusgroup
20:31 - Updates to TanStack AI
22:21 - OpenClaw gripe with lack of permissions
27:22 - Moltbook get acquired by Meta
30:05 - What’s making us happy

News:

Paige - Astro 6.0
Jack - VoidZero announces Vite+ Alpha
TJ - Eleventy becomes Build Awesome and the original Font Awesome Kickstarter video

Lightning News:

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

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136: VoidZero Wants to be the Laravel of JavaScript

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