Feature Request : drop node-sass, adopt vite as build tool for development

[pratik-kanthi]

Proposal

1. Drop node-sass as the sass loader. ( this enables point 2 )
2. Adopt vite as the package bundler ( for projects that use this package )

Why drop node-sass?

node-sass is now deprecated. Node versions >14 fails to compile this package.
https://sass-lang.com/blog/libsass-is-deprecated

Why Vite?

It's a 100x faster than vue-cli-service !!!.

Dev server starts up instantly.

https://vuejsdevelopers.com/2020/12/07/vite-vue-cli/

Vite provides native ES6 modules which the browser can load without a compilation step.
We cannot currently use Vite with vue9_components because it uses node-sass. Vite doesn't support node-sass.

Vite can build for production too. However, we can continue using webpack for production.

[pratik-kanthi]

Who's the maintainer here? No response in 15 days! 😛

[e9-skanthi]

@pratik-kanthi node-sass is a dev dependency of vue9_components. Can we allow users to choose their own bundler by not installing these dev dependencies?

[pratik-kanthi]

@e9-skanthi unsure what you mean
I'd like Vue9 to be compatible with Vite which requires using dart-sass instead of node-sass as the sass-loader.
Vue9 won't function without a sass loader.