> It hardly matters
For the hundredth time: it does matter.
Stop wasting people's time with slow tools and telling them it doesn't matter. That's not a way to treat your users.
Your fancy hot module reloading is not what I want. What I want is to reload the page and see my changes.
I've never seen a "hot reload" that works properly. The one some of co workers are using right now works like this:
- You edit a file
- You wait 5 seconds for the "instant" rebuild
- The browser reloads the page 5 times
- After a total of over 10 seconds, you can finally see the effects of your changes.
Maybe vite's HMR is better, I will never know because I don't care.
The link you sent has the following to answer why not esbuild:
> some of the important features needed for bundling applications are still work in progress - in particular code-splitting and CSS handling.
But this is not true. It handles css and does code splitting. Now, you have to be very explicit about code splitting: you have to define other entry points that share the same libraries as the main program so that it forces those shared libraries into separate chunks. To have more chunks you have more entry points where each entry point uses just one or two libraries. Yes, it's not perfect, but it's not a blocker for getting to production.
Where as the 30 seconds build is a total blocker for development iteration.