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vitejs / vite

vite

Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

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Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

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I have a small React project using vite 7 and have the following in my config so that vite interprets ".js" files as JSX: // See https://github.com/vitejs/vite/discussions/14652 esbuild: { loader: "jsx", include: /.*\.jsx?$/, exclude: [], }, optimizeDeps: { esbuildOptions: { loader: { ".js": "jsx", }, }, }, Note the comment at the top. I had no idea how to come up with this config by checking the documentation pages of vite and its various related tools. Luckily I found the GitHub issue and someone else had come up with the right incantation. Now this new vite uses new tools, and their documentation is still lacking. I spent half an hour trying to figure out how vite (and related tools that I had to navigate and try to piece a coherent view of: esbuild, oxc, roll
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down, etc.) might be convinced, but gave up and stayed with vite 7. Someone could respond with a working solution and it would help, sure, but these tools sure as hell have documentation issues.
In Vite 8.0 Is Out
CSS sourcemaps, being a basic assets in frontend tooling for many years, are still unsupported in Vite(https://github.com/vitejs/vite/issues/2830). Being an open issue for that long, while sourcemaps are supplied for free with tools like ESBuild & SCSS, are perhaps an indication of too much complexity in Vite? About build performance; ESBuild(and SWC as well) happily build large projects within reasonable time(<200ms). I doubt that skipping bundling all-together, by using ES-Modules during development, is worth the extra hassle in tooling. It made sense during the Webpack/Vuepack/Parcel 1 era, but not that much anymore since ESBuild happened. Spending some extra time in writing a custom buildscript (ESBuild + SCSS + simple async task manager + Chokidar + Tinylr or something similar) pays itself back really quick when a project gets larger
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In Vite 4.0
I've used Vite in a simple vuejs project and love its simplicity over webpack. However, debugging Vue3 with hot-module-reload seems to be broken. The moment HRM changes a source file, the line numbers and breakpoints not always line up and breakpoints. (https://github.com/vitejs/vite/issues/5916). The inability to debug properly is not a minor issue so I'm torn to go back to webpack or disable HMR to keep using Vite. Other than that, the simplification that Vite brings to the build process is sorely needed. I can only imagine how many developer hours have been lost in dealing with Webpack configuration issues. It is ironic that setting up a web development environment is more complicated than building a basic application. Thank you Vite developers for offering relief :)!
In Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling
Looks great! For SharedArrayBuffer and CORS, I have some experience and it's not difficult to deal with. You can check my project for music live coding in browsers: https://glicol.org All the audio library and langauge parser are written in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly, running in AudioWorklet thread. The control parameter is constantly shared from main thread to AudioWorklet thread with my customised ringbuf.js to avoid GC from JS in real-time audio: https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol I use vite.js for development; for local dev server CORS, check: https://github.com/vitejs/vite/issues/3909 For deployment CORS, e.g. Netlify, just edit the '_header' file as: /* Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy: require-corp in the 'public' folder.
In WebAssembly in my browser desktop environment

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