Hello everyone! In September and October 2025, we raised the fund of $2323.07, thanks to our awesome sponsors! ———
These two months, we have:
Redistributed $250 to each of the following maintainers:
- Chris (@zyyv) - Chris is leading UnoCSS, maintains it to keep up to date, and also implemented the Wind4 preset that aligns with the new system of Tailwind 4. Chris also made a UI library based on UnoCSS called Onu UI, do check it out as well!
- Bjorn Lu (@bluwy) - Bjorn is the core team member of Vite and contributed significantly to it. Bjorn also made a handy tool called publint to ensure packages follow the best practices for publishing. This has become our go-to tool to check package status in the e18e community.
- Arlo (@webfansplz) - Arlo has helped a lot with building Vite DevTools, providing better visualization on bundled modules, chunking relationships, plugins, etc.
- Vida Xie (@9romise) - Vida contributed significantly to maintaining ESLint Stylistic and improving the consistency and robustness of a large number of rules. He also helped with maintaining VueUse and set up better practices across the entire codebase.
Recurringsponsorship for $100/month to the following project:
e18e - e18e (Ecosystem Performance) is a community aimed at improving the performance of tooling and packages in the JavaScript ecosystem. They have pushed the ecosystem to move to modern implementations, leaner dependencies, ESM, better performance, etc, which you are already benefiting from in many of the packages you use across the ecosystem.
Recurringsponsorship for $50/month to the following 3 projects:
esm.sh - esm.sh is a no-build content delivery network (CDN) for modern web development. It does automatic format conversion and TypeScript transpiling to serve almost any npm packages to CDN with modern ESM format. We heavily rely on it for our playgrounds and some dynamic parts of our open-source apps. Meanwhile, they are also working on transpiling for Vue and Svelte SFC, meaning you will soon be able to ship and consume SFC without any build setup!
pnpm - pnpm is a fast, disk space-efficient package manager. It also offers first-class support of monorepo, and a bunch of handy integrations around it. At this moment, all our projects are using pnpm and have benefited a lot from the time and disk space saved.
Iconify: Iconify is an open-source project that provides the infrastructure for almost all open-source icon sets (~200,000 icons available at this moment). The universal icon solutions allow you to avoid icon set vendor-lockin and swap to different icons and styles easily by changing the icon ids. If you are using UnoCSS Icons, unplugin-icons, Nuxt Icon, Icônes, etc, you are already depending on it.
As a side note, if you would also want to know which packages you are depending on in your projects, and find those who need your support, I recently built a tool node-modules-inspector to visualize your node_modules, and see your dependencies. It's one command line away, give it a try!
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At the end of every month (or every other month), we will post an announcement to show you how we distribute the funds. It might also be interesting to introduce you to some projects you are depending on but weren't aware of. You can also find the previous announcement here.
Thank you for your support and for reading this post. If you are interested in joining the force to support our ecosystem, sponsor the fund, and we will manage the redistribution like this to help the ecosystem be sustainable in the long run. If you find someone's work is important to you, I'd encourage you to sponsor them directly. Thank you 💖 Cheers!
