Introduction Last week I was at Vueconf US . It's one of my favorite conferences and I try to go every year. This year Evan You gave a talk on the future of Vue and tooling. Halfway through he started talking about Vite and some of the new features of Vite 8 that just came out. I was amazed at how far Vite has come and the millions of downloads a month it's getting. What I found especially interesting was how few people really knew about these features. Evan asked the audience by a show of hands who had tried out Vite 8 , and only a few people raised their hands! So when I got home I decided to write this blog post and create a video on some configurations you must try out with Vite, including some new features that just came out with Vite 8. If you haven't heard yet, Vite 8 shipped in March 2026 with the most significant architectural change since Vite 2. One of the most significant is the Rust-based bundler called Rolldown that delivers 10-30x faster builds .…