Start stack without Vinxi: move away from obscuring mature tools like Vite and Nitro

[djgrant]

I'm using router, query and start. I'm loving the experience (thank you maintainers), which is exceptional. The only source of frustration is when I hit issues in the server stack. My gut feeling is that much of this frustration is caused because Vinxi is acting as a layer of misdirection.

Because vinxi is a wrapper around nitro it can be confusing to see whether a problem is being caused by nitro, or the way vinxi is using nitro. This also adds a burden for nitro maintainers if developers think the issue is coming from nitro.

Its docs, which are my first port of call when trying to figure out how to handle a request or configure a deployment, are fairly sparse. This is a shame because nitro has really good and comprehensive documentation. It would be great to just use Nitro directly.

I appreciate that vinxi is doing some nice stuff to smooth out the DX using Vite on the server etc., I'm just a bit concerned that it is obscuring tools that have already matured. I wonder if there's a simpler approach.

[djgrant]

Ah, just noticed in the last release

Note

Vinxi is a temporary dependency that will be replaced by a simple vite plugin or a dedicated Start CLI.

That's great news!