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Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller

What do you do when private equity buys your old company and fires the maintainers of the popular open source project you started over a decade ago? You reboot it, and bring along some new friends to do it.

Video.js is used by billions of people every month, on sites like Amazon.com, Linkedin, and Dropbox, and yet it wasn’t in great shape. A skeleton crew of maintainers were doing their best with a dated architecture, but it needed more. So Sam from Plyr, Rahim from Vidstack, and Wes and Christain from Media Chrome jumped in to help me rebuild it better, faster, and smaller.

It’s in beta now. Please give it a try and tell us what breaks.

https://videojs.org/blog/videojs-v10-beta-hello-world-again

Video.js v10 Beta: Hello, World (again) | Blog | Video.js | Open Source Video Player

Video.js v10 is a ground-up rewrite combining four open source players into one modern framework — 88% smaller default bundles, first-class React and TypeScript support, composable architecture, and beautiful new skins designed by Plyr's creator.

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thedanbob 5d ago

Very nice! I switched off video.js some time ago because it kept giving me trouble. Looking forward to trying this new version.

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rahim_alwer

Thank you! I’m on the Video.js team, and we’d love for you to try the library out and share your feedback. We’re especially eager to hear from developers who used or tried v8 in the past.

We’re taking a new approach to the library with a lot of new concepts, so your feedback would help us a ton during Beta as we figure out what’s working well and what isn’t.