Vime to Vidstack Update

mihar-22 commented 10 months ago

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We've been working really hard in getting Vidstack in the best place possible for all of you over the last year. In that time we've:

Pushed over 9 packed releases.
Built 30+ components and 18+ hooks with more to come.
Added support for autoplay, fullscreen, picture-in-picture, live streams, keyboard shortcuts, audio tracks, text tracks, video quality, and chapters.
Support audio, video, and HLS (+live).
Built a custom captions parsing library (see the repo for why).
Added over 26 examples on how to get building.
Painfully experimented with how to support as many framework and styling options as possible. Our latest release covers React (Next.js 13 ready) and we've drastically enhanced Vue, Svelte, and Solid with JSX types. In terms of styling options, we have a production-ready default layout, a default theme to extend the defaults and build your own, and the more custom route via CSS or Tailwind CSS.

❓ Where are we at?

We just announced the 1.0 pre-release (tweet). The library from a core and foundation perspective is finally stable. We also just shared our new site and docs! The future of Vidstack will be starting with a heavy focus around managing, building, and shipping media experiences with React and Next.js. Other frameworks will definitely come but because I'm mostly working on this solo it's going to take time unless we raise funds.

In the coming weeks we'll be finishing up the site, finalizing our streaming partnership, finishing the docs, adding the Plyr Layout, and a few more integrations/components. At this point we'll officially release 1.0.

❓ What's different between Vime and Vidstack?

Vidstack Player has a more mature architecture (we integrated it into Reddit), tons of more core features, more configuration options, cleaner and more standard APIs, much better framework support, more styling options, more hooks, and in general it's specifically designed to help you build your own player. You'll find it covers everything Vime does but better and more.

❓ What will happen to Vime?

Vime will simply be deprecated and archived soon. You can continue to use it as you please but there'll be no patches/releases. We strongly recommend migrating over to Vidstack. If you like the up and running quickly aspect of Vime then you'll find the Default Layout with Vidstack provides exactly that but more.