[Question] - Would it be ok to move to using Vite ?

[VicGUTT]

I'm wondering if it'd be ok to move to using ViteJS (which makes use of ESBuild under the hood) instead of raw ESBuild?

(Very biased/Personal) Benefits:

• Nice "wrapper" around ESBuild providing a better DX (Developer Experience)
• Ability to use Vitest
• "build:esm:module": "esbuild src/*.ts src/*.css --outdir=dist/ --format=esm" and other scripts won't break on my machine anymore 😅 (on Windows 👀 )

[oluoluoxenfree]

Any thoughts @sana @jerivas @jgerigmeyer?

[jgerigmeyer]

@VicGUTT I approve! I actually have been working on converting https://github.com/oddbird/css-anchor-positioning to use Vite (as well as some other dev-tooling changes), and then I was planning to backport those to https://github.com/oddbird/polyfill-template next week.

[jgerigmeyer]

Cf. oddbird/css-anchor-positioning#8

[VicGUTT]

Nice :)
Shall I wait or can I get the work started? It see the linked PR is missing one reviewer approval for now so I'm guessing it might be best to wait

[jgerigmeyer]

@VicGUTT It's up to you -- if you want to get started implementing something similar in this repo, I'd say go ahead 👍

But if you'd prefer to wait, or for me or someone else to make the changes here, that's fine too -- I should be able to look at this more this coming week.

[VicGUTT]

Great ✌️. I'll get a crack at it later today :)

[jgerigmeyer]

Great ✌️. I'll get a crack at it later today :)

@VicGUTT See oddbird/css-anchor-positioning#10 for a sample Vite/TypeScript build process. I'm planning to backport that general approach to https://github.com/oddbird/polyfill-template this week.

[VicGUTT]

Alright, looking at now, thanks

[VicGUTT]

Before going further here, I believe it to be best for me to contribute to the other repos and wait for the general tooling backports to the downstream repos :)