Feature Request: Using Deno as a server with vite

[mathe42]

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Disclaimer: To avoid confusion: This is NOT a proposal to run vite inside deno!

I thought that it should be quite easy to modify vite so I can use it together with deno:

The following example my Deno entrypoint is src/server.ts than I could start vite and start deno with

deno run -r http://localhost:3000/src/server.ts

(The -r flag is so deno don't use cached files)

I run into some errors as HTMLElement and CustomElements and location is not defined in deno but I could modify the dist/client/client.mjs file so Deno runs and I also got a simple HMR working.

(Note that I want to use the SAME vite instance to develop my vue application)

Suggested solution

I'm quite shure that this is nothing a plugin can handle (maybe by modify the @vite/client import but that seems like a hack and I'm not shure how easy this can be done).

Is this something to add to 'core' vite? - If yes I'm happy to work on it and create a PR.

Changes would include

1. files in src/client (content AND maybe structure)
2. Maybe other files wher code uses CLIENT_PUBLIC_PATH or @vite/client
3. Propably build config for files in src/client

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[Niputi]

you can follow Deno compatability here denoland/deno#12577

[mathe42]

That is not what I meant I dont want to run the vite code on Deno but create a Deno Server with vite.

[Niputi]

then please include error message and preferably a reproduction

[mathe42]

The main question is if this is something a plugin can not fix / handle is that something that is wanted in vite or not. And I'm happy to work on a PR!

reproduction see https://github.com/mathe42/vite-deno-repro

The modified client.mjs is the same I only removed some usage of location.PROPERTY and the ErrorOverlay. As location.reload() doesn't exist in Deno it currently exit the process if that function is called (as it not exists).

[mathe42]

Got it working with a plugin... Also for NodeJS development!

For all interested https://github.com/mathe42/vite-plugin-server