Shared Plugins during Build

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See Shared plugins during build.

Affect scope: Vite Plugin Authors

Future Default Change

builder.sharedConfigBuild was first introduce in v6.0. You can set it true to check how your plugins work with a shared config. We're looking for feedback about changing the default in a future major once the plugin ecosystem is ready.

Motivation

Align dev and build plugin pipelines.

Migration Guide

To be able to share plugins across environments, plugin state must be keyed by the current environment. A plugin of the following form will count the number of transformed modules across all environments.

function CountTransformedModulesPlugin() {
  let transformedModules
  return {
    name: 'count-transformed-modules',
    buildStart() {
      transformedModules = 0
    },
    transform(id) {
      transformedModules++
    },
    buildEnd() {
      console.log(transformedModules)
    },
  }
}

If we instead want to count the number of transformed modules for each environment, we need to keep a map:

function PerEnvironmentCountTransformedModulesPlugin() {
  const state = new Map<Environment, { count: number }>()
  return {
    name: 'count-transformed-modules',
    perEnvironmentStartEndDuringDev: true,
    buildStart() {
      state.set(this.environment, { count: 0 })
    }
    transform(id) {
      state.get(this.environment).count++
    },
    buildEnd() {
      console.log(this.environment.name, state.get(this.environment).count)
    }
  }
}

To simplify this pattern, Vite exports a perEnvironmentState helper:

function PerEnvironmentCountTransformedModulesPlugin() {
  const state = perEnvironmentState<{ count: number }>(() => ({ count: 0 }))
  return {
    name: 'count-transformed-modules',
    perEnvironmentStartEndDuringDev: true,
    buildStart() {
      state(this).count = 0
    }
    transform(id) {
      state(this).count++
    },
    buildEnd() {
      console.log(this.environment.name, state(this).count)
    }
  }
}