Vite is a lot of magic layered over rollup and esbuild. In a sane world, I could just use esbuild without any wrappers and it would be just as easy to use as vite. Instead of fixing esbuild, vite was born to glue rollup and esbuild together into a comprehensive solution.

My ideal stack that I can hopefully switch to in 2024 is esbuild (pending better tree shaking and worker support) and native node test (pending ts-node fixes or native TS in node)