Vite: Disable bundling in build?

[fregante]

I'm looking for a solution that lets me ship "raw" source files without bundling them. I saw that this Vite plugin does exactly what I'm looking for during development:

• it bundles each vendor from node_modules separately (dist/vendor/deps/*.js)
• it generates 1 file for each 1 source file, even preserving their original directory structure

But once I run the final build command, I get:

• a single content.js file with everything in it

Is it possible to preserve the 1:1 file structure and disable bundling in the build step?

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Context: I followed this guide with Vite 2, TypeScript: https://crxjs.dev/vite-plugin/getting-started/vanilla-js/create-project

[guypassy]

You can use rollupOptions's manualChunks to manage what dependencies do not get bundled, or bundled separately.

//vite.config.js
build: {
  rollupOptions: {
    output: {
      manualChunks: {
        lodash: ['lodash']
      }
    }
  }
}

If you want each dependency to be bundled separately, here's a blog with a nice solution.
https://sambitsahoo.com/blog/vite-code-splitting-that-works.html
Basically, import the list of dependencies from ./package.json and iterate on it to add separate chunks.