alt Hacker NewsVite had five major version in the four years 2022-2026. Version 3 => 4 => 5 => 6 => 7 => 8. Each one of those had breaking changes and required devs to go through a migration. It's too much. And for what? It's not as if it is dramatically better now than it was in version 3.
I can't say I would really look forward to bringing this level of needless churn and constant disruption to the rest of my development toolchain. Anyway, Vite+ is really just wrapping existing tools into an abstracted command-line interface? And so I have more layers of indirection to wade through in order to get the thing to do what I want? So far I am not optimistic about this prospect...
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> Version 3 => 4 => 5 => 6 => 7 => 8.
I did the migrations and they were not horrible. A few breaking changes but they were relatively isolated. And the speed and improvements over these versions had been quite significant.
Echoing another person, but we did all those major version migrations without any breakage / churn. What were the breaks you ran into?
> It's not as if it is dramatically better now than it was in version 3
Adding stuff for SSR was a major improvement.
I went from 4 to 8 in a single step. I had to change 5 lines of config.
Can we please stop the incessant belly-aching over problems that don't exist. I have to question if you even use these tools?
I've followed all the main migrations and I've say they where really quite smooth, can't remember having any major issues and each time it tended to be worth it.