Replace Create React App with Vite

[tomhendra]

Create React App / react-scripts are no longer actively maintained.

Please could we have the basic example updated to use Vite inline with the community, and the React Build Preset from the SWA dashboard work out of the box with Vite?

[nanonandi]

As a DevOps engineer, this enhancement would greatly benefit our workflow. 🚀

[BraianS]

I agree, Vite is a great alternative with many workflow benefits.

[debssmartins]

Agree, this ensures a optimized and streamlined workflow for developing and deploying React applications, leveraging the performance benefits of Vite and the deployment ease provided by Azure Static Web Apps 👍

[RayMathew]

Hello.. Any update on this? I feel it's a bad look for Azure that they're recommending an outdated React template. It's still using v16, and a deprecated build tool (react-scripts).

[BraianS]

@RayMathew Good evening, How are you going? Unfortunately I don't think anything will happen., the last commit was in Febrary 2024: be9a2ae ...