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The incorporated tools are actually really amazing: - vitest, an ultra fast test runner. After using a lot of others, including jest and node's built in one, I love vitest. - oxlint, replaces eslint but is compatible with its file format and ultra fast, since it isn't written JavaScript. I tried biome, but I found oxlint to have more rules and the eslint compatibilit", "context": "", "use_case": "code formatting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vite+ Beta"}, {"id": 780172995, "item_id": 48760812, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760812", "by": "KronisLV", "date": "2026-07-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Vite, Vitest, Oxlint and Oxfmt", "excerpt": "I love Vite, Vitest, Oxlint and Oxfmt and look in their direction for most of my new projects! I hope these folks manage to get a bunch of money and can fund the continued development for at least the next decade. Sure beats opening some ancient project and seeing some mix of Gulp, Grunt, webpack and a bunch of other disjointed stuff (I migrated that one over to also use the newer stack).", "context": "", "use_case": "code formatting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vite+ Beta"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["code formatting", "js formatting"], "compared": [{"slug": "oxlint", "name": "oxlint", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "vite", "name": "Vite", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "eslint", "name": "ESLint", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "vitest", "name": "Vitest", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759761", "title": "Vite+ Beta", "mentions": 3}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 780286017, "item_id": 48767876, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767876", "by": "ProCodeSoftware", "date": "2026-07-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use oxfmt and oxlint", "excerpt": "I use oxfmt and oxlint, the first JS linter I've used. For a long time, I avoided Eslint due to how strict it was, but even though oxlint uses eslint, I've been ok using it. I haven't used vitest before though. And I think Webpack should be discontinued by now, because Vite has replaced it in every way. Maybe to get other projects to switch, they should make a Webpack-to-Vite migration script.", "context": "", "use_case": "JS formatting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vite+ Beta"}, {"id": 780195314, "item_id": 48762207, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48762207", "by": "bhouston", "date": "2026-07-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "oxfmt, replaces prettier and is faster since it isn't written in JavaScript.", "excerpt": "> But I have zero clue what those other tools are. The incorporated tools are actually really amazing: - vitest, an ultra fast test runner. After using a lot of others, including jest and node's built in one, I love vitest. - oxlint, replaces eslint but is compatible with its file format and ultra fast, since it isn't written JavaScript. I tried biome, but I found oxlint to have more rules and the eslint compatibilit", "context": "", "use_case": "code formatting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vite+ Beta"}, {"id": 780172995, "item_id": 48760812, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760812", "by": "KronisLV", "date": "2026-07-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Vite, Vitest, Oxlint and Oxfmt", "excerpt": "I love Vite, Vitest, Oxlint and Oxfmt and look in their direction for most of my new projects! I hope these folks manage to get a bunch of money and can fund the continued development for at least the next decade. Sure beats opening some ancient project and seeing some mix of Gulp, Grunt, webpack and a bunch of other disjointed stuff (I migrated that one over to also use the newer stack).", "context": "", "use_case": "code formatting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vite+ Beta"}]}