problems with vite dev server (proxy setup without destroying live reload & other strange behaviour)

[drahkrub]

Hi, I would like to switch from vue-cli to vite.

Everything works perfectly fine in production mode, but I have problems with vite (which I do not have with vue-cli) in development mode which I am unable to fix.

Usually I work with Spring-Boot as backend, but - since we are here in Javascript-Land - I've setup a very simple Javascript project with Express.js as backend which serves two simplified Vue.js demo projects, one build with vue-cli (no problems), the other one with vite (problems in development mode), see https://github.com/drahkrub/demo-vue-cli-vs-vite .

The main problem (in development mode) is to setup the dev server such that

• URLs are proxied "in a generic way" (multiple REST-URLs should be handled) to the backend server
• without destroying live reload

I've tried several settings but none of them worked. As I said I experience this problem only with vite, not with vue-cli.

Please visit https://github.com/drahkrub/demo-vue-cli-vs-vite where I have described the problems in more detail.

Any help is appreciated!

[so1ve]

You'd better ask in https://github.com/vitejs/vite :D

[drahkrub]

:-) Been there, done that: vitejs/vite#14514 (and vitejs/vite#13299 before that), unfortunately with no success / no answers.