Vite 8.0 Is Out

Re:Vite 8.0 Is Out by throwaway290 on Friday March 13, 2026 @05:51AM (#47362385)

Outsider question: why use Rollup when Esbuild exist? Is esbuild not enough for production builds?

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Re:Vite 8.0 Is Out by rk06 on Friday March 13, 2026 @06:26AM (#47362579)

it is not. lack of plugin support is sufficient to block adoptions among other things.

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Re:Vite 8.0 Is Out by throwaway290 on Friday March 13, 2026 @07:34AM (#47363044)

but it has plugin support? what kind of plugins you mean?

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Re:Vite 8.0 Is Out by rk06 on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:22AM (#47364870)

look at plugin api limiation here:

https://esbuild.github.io/plugins/#svelte-plugin

esbuild's plugin support is limited which is why vite had to use rollup for prod build.

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Re:Vite 8.0 Is Out by abrztam on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:51AM (#47365281)

also since typescript is being ported to go and rolldown is rust, they're stuck using IPC, so they miss out on native stuff like type awareness that a pure go toolchain would get for free

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