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Vite is framework agnostic. Framework specific work is spearheaded by framework specific community or core authors in some cases (solid, astro)

React falters because there are not many community contributing towards react integration.

Note: Vite team has done their job for react, but react itself has many concerns particularly due to commonjs that a dedicated person (or team) is needed for react

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>Vite is framework agnostic. Framework specific work is spearheaded by framework specific community or core authors in some cases (solid, astro)

This is like saying NPM is language agnostic. Sure, technically it is. But we all know what it was built for and what the community is geared toward.

Framework-agnosticism is not an afterthought in Vite, but has been there from the beginning. Svelte has gone all-in with Vite. Go to svelte.dev and the homepage instructs you to create a new project using Vite. We've never run into any problems with things being built for a specific framework in Vite.

…Vue in this case?

Yes.

It's a JavaScript bundler. If a framework is doing weird stuff with imports, or using legacy module builds, that's on the framework to fix...or not.

Angular is the same way, it has its own compiler and relies on custom build-time code to work. That's also why it isn't picked up by a lot of newer build tools that generally just work with normal JS.

This analogy is plain wrong. The blog post lists multiple non-Vue frameworks/tools using Vite as their default build tool. Compare that to the number of non-JS languages (excluding ones that compile to JS) using NPM as their default package manager (0).

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