Yeah, working on app with >8k modules seeing >4s page loads on refresh. It's also weird how it wants to force you to not use deep imports on package deps, but then doesn't want you using index files in your own code..
I believe there are areas for improvement here that Vite can make though. They need to implement finer grain browser side module caching, dependency sub-graph invalidation(Merkel tree?), and figure out how to push manifests and sub-manifests to the browser so it can pro-actively load everything without needing to parse every module in import order making network requests as it goes..
On large applications Vite is fast to build, but loading your application in browser issues thousands of http requests, which is tragically slow.
Esbuild is basically instant to build, and instant to load on the same application. It’s a shame it doesn’t do hot reload.
If Turbopack can give us the best of both worlds, then that’s absolutely an improvement I want.