When Vite ignores your Browserslist configuration

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Vite

I’m a long time user of Browserslist and Vite and I was pretty convinced they paired very-well. It seems to be the case for both CSS and JavaScript output, but it actually is not for JavaScript.

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PostCSS

Actually, Vite doesn’t support Browserslist at all: the only reason it “seems” to work well with CSS is because Vite uses PostCSS, which itself natively uses Browserslist. We could say that Vite supports Browserslist by proxy, for CSS.

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esbuild

Weirdly, it took me ages to notice the JavaScript transformations done by Vite (using ESBuild under the hood) always produce the same result, no matter the content of your browserslist file. Whoops!

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