Vite + Lingui.js POC

Showcase how to make lingui.js work with Vite. For babel macros to work correctly we need babel transpilation.

Solution proposed in this POC is to use a reactBabelRefreshPlugin which is mostly exact to what the official @vitejs/plugin-react-refresh is, but with a tweak that enables the babel transformation even in production builds. Alternative solution would be to use https://github.com/itsMapleLeaf/vite-plugin-babel-macros together with @vitejs/plugin-react-refresh, but this would be slower, because the code needs to be parsed 2x by Babel instead of just once as it is implemented here in the custom plugin.

To run this on your machine, just install deps and run npm run dev.

Word of caution:

The custom plugin we have is incompatible with a deprecated @babel/polyfill. Not sure why exactly that is, but if you replace it's import with

import 'core-js/stable'
import 'regenerator-runtime/runtime

it works fine even in build time.