feat: support Vite 8 with the Rolldown bundler - #8909
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Vite 8 bundles rolldown; pin 8.2.x so the lockfile resolves rolldown >=1.2.1, which fixes an init-order bug with codeSplitting and CJS deps.
Renames the standalone plugin to qwikRolldown (qwikRollup stays as a deprecated alias) and swaps manualChunks for rolldown's codeSplitting groups, which replace Rollup 4.52's onlyExplicitManualChunks with includeDependenciesRecursively:false. The manifest now finds core and preloader by group name, and the qwikloader by its emit reference so a user route named /qwikloader can't shadow it. outputOptions is a sync hook, so it no longer returns a promise — the standalone plugin was silently dropping Qwik's chunking (the docs REPL built its own chunks).
handleHotUpdate becomes the per-environment hotUpdate hook, the watcher takes plain directories now that chokidar 4 has no glob support, and the placeholder regexes accept backticks because oxc re-emits string literals as template literals.
The raw-source load hook has to run first, otherwise Vite's wasm helper tries to parse the raw .wasm source as a real module. The old manualChunks override for the REPL is gone with manualChunks itself.
Covers the e2e fixtures, starters, scripts and the remaining package configs, plus the two e2e assertions that track the new bundler's output (inline CSS minification and the slightly larger core chunk).
Vite 8 leaves the compiled executor ending in a line comment, which swallowed the closing brace of the wrapper and threw SyntaxError in the browser.
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Qwik v2 now needs Vite 8 and bundles with rolldown. Vite 5-7 and Rollup are dropped, so this is a
breaking change. It's the minimal slice of #8785 — Brian is busy, so I'm carrying it. Stacked on
#8907 and #8908; those land first and the diff shrinks. The sensitive part is chunking:
manualChunks+onlyExplicitManualChunksbecome rolldown'scodeSplittinggroups +includeDependenciesRecursively: false, which buys the same thing — a grouped module no longerdrags its deps into the chunk. Green: prod build, 3201 unit tests, 487/487 chromium e2e, SSG
html/state snapshot and size budgets unchanged, docs REPL still working.
Chunking, the part worth reviewing
codeSplittinggroups. The manifest finds them by group name./qwikloaderroute can't shadow it.priority.strictExecutionOrder— it breaks preloading.The dist build is untouched
vite.build()option keys, so the shippedcore.prod.mjs/core.min.mjs/ preloader are byte-for-byte what main produces.Three bugs found while verifying
stayed dead. Unit tests missed it because they call the manifest directly. Only e2e caught it.
outputOptionsis a sync hook, but ours returned a promise. The standaloneqwikRolldownpluginwas therefore applying no Qwik chunking at all. That is what broke the REPL. Now fixed, so
standalone rolldown users get Qwik chunking for the first time.
closing brace of its wrapper and threw
SyntaxErrorin the browser.Where this differs from #8785
codeSplitting+ CJS deps.test.fixme'd.