Why not use vite instead of rollup?

[drylian]

I am testing this Samp-Node and Infernus and it really seemed very good, the use of Rollup and the time of compilation seems more time consuming, would it not be better to use Vite?

[drylian]

My Personal Confs (created and tested) vite.config.ts

import { dirname, resolve } from 'path'
import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
import { createRequire } from 'module';
import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
const { externals } = require('rollup-plugin-node-externals');

const isDev = process.env.NODE_ENV?.startsWith("dev") ? true : false;
export default defineConfig({
  plugins:[
    {
      enforce: 'pre',
      ...externals(),
    }
  ],
  resolve: {
    alias: {
        '@': resolve(dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), 'src'),
    },
},
  build: {
    minify:isDev ? false : true,
    sourcemap: isDev? true : false,
    outDir:"omp/js",
    lib: {
      entry: resolve(__dirname, 'src/main.ts'),
      formats: ["cjs"]
    },
    rollupOptions: {
      output: {
        globals: {
          vue: 'Vue', // remove required index.html in build
        },
      },
    },
  },
})

The most current versions of this module work too, but I left the old one to have better support for node 16 Devdeps:

{
    "rollup-plugin-node-externals": "^5.1.3",
    "vite": "^4", 
}

scripts:

{
    "js:dev": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development vite build --watch", // for development
    "js:build": "tsc && cross-env NODE_ENV=production vite build" // for build tsc for types
}

tsconfig: only not use distOut dir, for tsc build not make files](tsconfig: just don't use outDir, so tsc build doesn't create files, after all Vite will do that)

Vite will generate a file with the name package.json, example { name:"omp-server" } > Vite.outDir + omp-server.cjs

[dockfries]

Thank you for your suggestion, but for now I won't consider replacing rollup with vite. I may consider it in the future.

I think rollup with esbuild is a good compilation solution for now, Vite is indeed suitable for building front-end Vue applications, but I haven't tried using it to build back-end applications yet.

How much improvement in performance did you see after switching to vite compared to the previous compilation?

[drylian]

I just did a test with the same sources (infernus/starter) and now it seems to me that the two are almost the same thing, what would change would just be that rollup needs 7 deps to work (3types and 4 deps) and vite 2(deps), but I don't think it would affect much when I did it with Vite it was with Vite in my gamemode so that could be why I felt a difference in the compilations, but the results are there

Rollup Compillation time (first initiation) second initiation roullup in another comps (77ms/min ~ 371ms/max) // sample editions

Vite Compillation time (first) Vite Compilation time (second) vite in another comps (65ms/min ~ 301ms/max) // sample editions