New in Vue - March 2025

I promissed new summary once VueJS Amsterdam is over. It took me two weeks longer, but there we are. Hear, hear! I bring the latest Vue news. Unfortunately, I must start with a sad announcement - the Weekly Vue News, the invaluable source of inspiration for Vue devs are no more. Their long-time curator Michael Hoffmann called it quits. Let his hard work be remembered. But life goes on. And the life in the Vue ecosystem is everything but steady. So lets recap the new releases: The most significant one would be the Vite 8.0. Why? Because Vite is nowadays fundament for modern JS development. And v8 brings important updates like using brand new and super-fast Rolldown bundler. There was a beta testing phase running since December, and now the stable version was made available. On top of that, there is Vite+ - a unified modern toolchain built with the latest available features as "This is the way" of developing webapps in 2026. The current state of the project is Alpha with stable release e