diff --git a/packages/vite/package.json b/packages/vite/package.json
index f7ed075d1f1d..5fe442257ce3 100644
--- a/packages/vite/package.json
+++ b/packages/vite/package.json
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
     "express": "4.19.2",
     "find-my-way": "8.2.0",
     "http-proxy-middleware": "2.0.6",
-    "isbot": "3.8.0",
+    "isbot": "5.1.6",
     "react": "19.0.0-beta-04b058868c-20240508",
     "react-server-dom-webpack": "19.0.0-beta-04b058868c-20240508",
     "vite": "5.2.11",
diff --git a/packages/vite/src/streaming/createReactStreamingHandler.ts b/packages/vite/src/streaming/createReactStreamingHandler.ts
index 763dad50e3ea..fbb03313a7a2 100644
--- a/packages/vite/src/streaming/createReactStreamingHandler.ts
+++ b/packages/vite/src/streaming/createReactStreamingHandler.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import path from 'path'
 import { Response } from '@whatwg-node/fetch'
 import type Router from 'find-my-way'
 import type { HTTPMethod } from 'find-my-way'
-import isbot from 'isbot'
+import { createIsbotFromList, list as isbotList } from 'isbot'
 import type { ViteDevServer } from 'vite'
 
 import { middlewareDefaultAuthProviderState } from '@redwoodjs/auth'
@@ -28,8 +28,10 @@ interface CreateReactStreamingHandlerOptions {
   getMiddlewareRouter: () => Promise<Router.Instance<any>>
 }
 
-const checkUaForSeoCrawler = isbot.spawn()
-checkUaForSeoCrawler.exclude(['chrome-lighthouse'])
+// Create an isbot instance that ignores the Chrome Lighthouse user agent
+const isbot = createIsbotFromList(
+  isbotList.filter((record) => !record.includes('chrome-lighthouse')),
+)
 
 export const createReactStreamingHandler = async (
   {
@@ -167,9 +169,7 @@ export const createReactStreamingHandler = async (
       currentRoute.bundle && '/' + currentRoute.bundle,
     ].filter(Boolean) as string[]
 
-    const isSeoCrawler = checkUaForSeoCrawler(
-      req.headers.get('user-agent') || '',
-    )
+    const isSeoCrawler = isbot(req.headers.get('user-agent') || '')
 
     // Using a function to get the CSS links because we need to wait for the
     // vite dev server to analyze the module graph
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 1916e1ec9fcf..a741736db9bd 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -8695,7 +8695,7 @@ __metadata:
     find-my-way: "npm:8.2.0"
     glob: "npm:10.3.15"
     http-proxy-middleware: "npm:2.0.6"
-    isbot: "npm:3.8.0"
+    isbot: "npm:5.1.6"
     react: "npm:19.0.0-beta-04b058868c-20240508"
     react-server-dom-webpack: "npm:19.0.0-beta-04b058868c-20240508"
     rollup: "npm:4.17.2"
@@ -20635,10 +20635,10 @@ __metadata:
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
-"isbot@npm:3.8.0":
-  version: 3.8.0
-  resolution: "isbot@npm:3.8.0"
-  checksum: 10c0/3e9daa907212db8e8e339fe0c7eacff7814de0db0aeef9ab379376b245f35058c6bdd2de0849442a791bc3d9587d749071e7d7e90aea00bf9f834f40c69ea16f
+"isbot@npm:5.1.6":
+  version: 5.1.6
+  resolution: "isbot@npm:5.1.6"
+  checksum: 10c0/c0883a4f91882abed46be2bedb0e36acf8db74ec9866d752991ebb2982c84faa04a774bd20d36b988701611e2fdf518a977edd640a9b28e668a91d3e2c48a3d7
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard