[dimgl]

> The shear amount of magic boilerplate vite creates to make react app work is quite uncomprehensible.

What?

pnpm create vite

pnpm i

pnpm run dev

...you're done? Delete all files in `src` and make a single `main.tsx` with `ReactDOM.render` if you really wanna start from scratch.

[_heimdall]

I do like Vite, and other frameworks built on it like Astro, but to be fair Vite's magic really isn't at the initial project stage.

Virtual modules are really tricky to understand IMO, especially if you need to debug one. There are subtle differences between dev and production that make sense for a bundler but can be really confusing to a dev. Imports also don't work quite the same, mainly when you start using features like `?raw` imports to get the contents of an SVG file or something like that.

[bvrmn]

And now please only install vite and try to create all boilerplate by yourself.