Vite uses Esbuild for development builds, and they have an answer for why they don't use it for prod builds here https://vitejs.dev/guide/why.html#why-not-bundl

Vite uses Esbuild for development builds, and they have an answer for why they don't use it for prod builds here https://vitejs.dev/guide/why.html#why-not-bundle-with-esbuild https://vitejs.dev/guide/why.html#why-not-bundle-with-esbuil...