Articles for the Build Tools tag
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zod-compiler: Zod at the Speed of Light, Without Touching Your Code
Zod gives you the nicest validation DX in the TypeScript world, but every parse walks the schema tree at runtime. zod-compiler quietly compiles that work away at build time, so you keep your schemas and lose the overhead.
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babel-plugin-zod-hoist: Free Speed for Your Zod Schemas
A zero-config build-time optimization for one of the most common Zod performance mistakes: defining schemas inside functions that run over and over.
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Vavite: Va Vite, Run Vite on the Server
If Vite spoils your frontend with instant hot reloading, why should your backend settle for a full process restart on every save? Vavite answers that question by making your server a first-class Vite citizen.
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Critical: Painting the Fold Before the Stylesheet Lands
A render-blocking stylesheet can hold your whole page hostage. Critical defuses that by inlining just the styles the first screen needs and deferring everything else.
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Shiki: Paint Your Code Exactly Like VS Code
Most syntax highlighters approximate what your editor shows. Shiki ships the real thing — VS Code's own grammars and themes — and bakes the result into static HTML.
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Rolldown: The Rust-Powered Bundler That Speaks Rollup
A Rust-powered bundler with Rollup compatibility that is about to change how Vite builds your projects.
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Maizzle: Tailwind CSS Meets the Email Inbox
A framework that lets you build beautiful HTML emails with Tailwind CSS while it handles the ugly parts automatically.