Build watch hanging with react-syntax-highlighter

[vahnag]

Describe the bug

Importing anything from react-syntax-highlighter makes the build script fail in watch mode, even though the initial build completes successfully.

No debug logs are printed, the builds just hang.

Reproduction

https://stackblitz.com/edit/vitejs-vite-kya2f6cg?file=package.json,src%2FApp.tsx&terminal=watch

Steps to reproduce

Run vite build --watch (should have auto-started).
Make any change in App.tsx to re-build the bundle.
The build hangs and the bundle is not re-built.

System Info

System:
    OS: Linux 5.0 undefined
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz
    Memory: 0 Bytes / 0 Bytes
    Shell: 1.0 - /bin/jsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 18.20.3 - /usr/local/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.19 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
    npm: 10.2.3 - /usr/local/bin/npm
    pnpm: 8.15.6 - /usr/local/bin/pnpm
  npmPackages:
    @vitejs/plugin-react: ^4.3.4 => 4.3.4 
    vite: ^6.1.0 => 6.1.0

Used Package Manager

npm

Logs

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vite v6.1.0 building for production...

watching for file changes...

build started...
✓ 1058 modules transformed.
dist/index.html                   0.46 kB │ gzip:  0.30 kB
dist/assets/index-n_ryQ3BS.css    1.39 kB │ gzip:  0.72 kB
dist/assets/index-vvw0kxgl.js   226.05 kB │ gzip: 72.30 kB
built in 3171ms.

build started...
transforming (1) src/App.tsx^C

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