Vite: Getting `ReferenceError: TextEncoder is not defined` on react template

[ciaoben]

Hi,
I was simply trying vite react template, and after having installed and simply running npm run dev I get:

ben @ tmp/react-vite > npm run dev

> [email protected] dev /Users/ben/pro/tmp/react-vite
> vite

vite v1.0.0-beta.4

  Dev server running at:
  > Local:    http://localhost:3000/
  > Network:  http://192.168.8.111:3000/
  > Network:  http://10.212.134.212:3000/


  ReferenceError: TextEncoder is not defined
      at createChannel (/Users/ben/pro/tmp/react-vite/node_modules/esbuild/lib/main.js:102:17)
      at Object.startService (/Users/ben/pro/tmp/react-vite/node_modules/esbuild/lib/main.js:338:47)
      at ensureService (/Users/ben/pro/tmp/react-vite/node_modules/vite/dist/esbuildService.js:38:36)
      at Object.exports.transform (/Users/ben/pro/tmp/react-vite/node_modules/vite/dist/esbuildService.js:49:27)
      at app.use (/Users/ben/pro/tmp/react-vite/node_modules/vite/dist/server/serverPluginEsbuild.js:16:58)
      at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)

[MarvinRudolph]

You didn't provide any information from the issue template. A reproduction would be really helpful.

[ciaoben]

@MarvinRudolph you are right sorry.

Here is a repo https://github.com/ciaoben/react-vite

I simply launched these commands from on my mac (10.15.4) with node v10.13.0:

mkdir react-vite
cd react-vite
npm init vite-app --template react
npm i
npm run dev

[evanw]

I'm the author of esbuild, the library that is crashing. It looks like TextEncoder works on node LTS but not on node 10.x. Upgrading to node LTS should fix the crash.

I just published a new version of esbuild that doesn't require TextEncoder. Updating vite to use esbuild 0.5.11 should fix this crash for all users on node 10.x.

[underfin]

@evanw Thanks for your point error.