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991: Vite’s bet on Cloudflare (VOID Framework)

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Vite just launched Void, a fullstack JavaScript framework and cloud platform that bundles together routing, SSR, auth, an ORM, and nearly everything you’d expect from a modern meta-framework — all built on top of Cloudflare’s infrastructure. Scott, Wes, and CJ dig into whether Void is the Rails moment JavaScript has been waiting for, or just shiny Cloudflare lock-in with a bow on it. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! The Announcement 00:27 Laravel or Rails for JavaScript? 01:38 What is this big announcement? 04:36 It’s just Vercel for Cloudflare? 07:09 Database options. 09:37 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 10:01 Type safety. 12:09 What about RPC? 15:41 Component Loaders over Page Loaders. 18:23 Baked in authentication via Better Auth. 22:57 Lock-in. Unapologetically Cloudflare Evan’s X Post. 24:55 Is it lock-in? 32:40 Self-Cloudflare your own Void apps? Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0

Welcome to Syntax today. We've got myself, CJ and Scott on the horn. We're talking about

0:07.0

Viet's second announcement. We had our earlier episode. We talked about VET Plus, their open source

0:11.9

tool. Another thing that they recently announced this thing called Void, which is both a deployment

0:19.5

platform as well as a VIT plugin that will handle all of your bindings

0:26.0

and whatnot. Basically, I said this and a lot of people got mad, but I said that this was like

0:31.5

a Laravel or Rails for JavaScript, which is about 87% true, obviously, but it got a lot of people mad.

0:40.6

Is this, CJ, is this a Rails for JavaScript?

0:43.1

It's like 60% true.

0:44.5

Because like one of the things that Rails or Larvald gives us is a full ORM and like more

0:51.1

opinions about where stuff should go.

0:52.9

This basically gives you access to all the stuff that Cloudflare makes available,

0:56.7

like a database and a queue and all these other things that you typically need in an app

1:00.9

and then exposes them to be really easy to use.

1:03.8

But I guess we'll talk about it.

1:05.8

They are giving you an ORM though.

1:08.0

And they are giving you opinions as to where they should go but but in rails

1:12.4

west it's like you're you're basically defining like the schema and it's giving you a lot more yeah very

1:19.0

much more structured i get yeah the adonis j s people had my neck for that i should not have said that

1:26.3

but talk about it once we get into the database layer, because I have ideas about this stuff,

1:30.3

and I think my ideas are more Rails and Lervel-esque than what Void has said.

1:34.8

Not to say that this stuff isn't cool, but...

1:37.0

Yes. So what the heck is this? So the folks behind Viet, it's a company called Void Zero,

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