137: Netlify Enters the AI App Builder Race

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 their release schedule so that every release now (both even and odd) numbers will be an LTS release, and beginning in 2027, it will be named release 27, just to make it easier for everyone.

Timestamps:

• 0:57 - Vite 8 is out
• 8:04 - Jack joins Netlify and Netlify Start
• 12:21 - Node.js is changing their release cadence
• 20:10 - The dictionary sues OpenAI
• 23:18 - Vercel v. Cloudflare on X
• 31:20 - Quite the tweet from Sam Altman
• 39:18 - What’s making us happy

News:

• Paige - Vite 8 is out
• Jack - Jack joined Netlify and launches Netlify Start
• TJ - Node.js is changing their release schedule

Lightning News: 

• The dictionary sues OpenAI
• Quite the tweet from Sam Altman
• Vercel vs. Cloudflare on X

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Afrin nasal spray
• Jack - Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die and Project Hail Mary
• TJ - One Piece live action series and college basketball

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