vite --watch fails if specific files from froala are imported

[HerrDietz]

We noticed our build to be stuck in watch mode after updating vite to its latest version (6.1.0 at the time of writing).

After waiting for some time, hoping the issue would resolve magically by itself (vite 6 was rather fresh by then), we began investigating our setup.

We managed to create a small reproducer. It is very weird, as it seems like removing any froala import from the entrypoint would resolve the issue.

I uploaded the reproducer into a public repository: https://github.com/HerrDietz/froala-vite-build-reproducer

OS: MacOS 18.3.1 and Windows 11 (current patch level)
Node: 20.18.2
npm: 10.8.2

Update: It seems to be related to the number of imports.

I noticed the problem still occurs if I remove plugins and import others instead. The magic number seems to be 20. If i import 20 dependencies, the build fails once I changed the imported file. I replaced all the plugins and imported language files instead. It fails once there are 20 languages.

[HerrDietz]

It seems to be a bug in vite. It's not yet resolved, but there is a workaround.

See vitejs/vite#19410

I'm closing the issue