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Evan You

Creator of Vue.js and Vite. Pioneer of sustainable independent open source development, funding his full-time work through community sponsorship since 2016. Founded VoidZero Inc in 2023 to build next-generation JavaScript tooling.

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Evan You created Vue.js and pioneered sustainable independent open source funding via Patreon

Feb 1, 2014

Evan You created Vue.js in 2014, which grew to become one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks. In 2016, he became one of the first developers to sustain full-time open source work through Patreon and later GitHub Sponsors, pioneering a model for independent open source sustainability. All his projects (Vue, Vite, Vitest) are MIT licensed.

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Sources: Evan You Blog· Patreon