Consider Move the bundler to Vite

[omarkhatibco]

Hi @ashconnell

Thank you for introducing Firebolt, I love it and I love the api design, It's what I wanted to fix in Remix.

One problem though, When I tried Remix last year, many of the problems that I faced were because of ESBuild, in so many cases I could not proceed or I had to search for alternative because I could not change ESBuild and then I had to go back to Next.js

So my suggestion here for you, it's to try to move it directly to Vite since it has a wider and a rich ecosystem.

[ashconnell]

Thank you!

What issues were you having with esbuild specifically?

I remember reading some people having issues with build times, especially when using MDX, but this problem doesn’t exist here due to the way MDX content is cached.

[omarkhatibco]

Hi @ashconnell,

Some plugins or packages did not work at all with esbuild, if I remember correctly even zustand did not work properly at that time.

here are some links for the ones that related to esbuild:

• [Feature]: Allow custom esbuild-Plugins through remix.config.js remix-run/remix#717
• ESM? Build errors after updating to v1.3.5 remix-run/remix#2691