Vite deploys made simpler

Vite, the web build tool behind many React, Vue, and Svelte projects, is getting a shorter path to Cloudflare deployment through Alchemy’s Cloudflare integration. (developers.cloudflare.com) (alchemy.run) Cloudflare said on April 8, 2025 that its Vite plugin reached version 1.0 and added official support for Vite 6, React Router version 7, and the full Workers platform. The plugin runs server code inside Cloudflare’s own Workers runtime, called workerd, instead of Node.js during development. (developers.cloudflare.com) (blog.cloudflare.com) Cloudflare’s docs say the plugin can build static sites, single-page applications, and full-stack apps for deployment on Workers. A basic setup still starts with adding `@cloudflare/vite-plugin` to `vite.config.ts`. (developers.cloudflare.com) (blog.cloudflare.com) Alchemy is a separate deployment tool that wraps Cloudflare infrastructure in TypeScript code. Its Vite provider promises “automatic configuration” for Cloudflare Workers deployments and shows a minimal example that creates a Vite app with default settings. (alchemy.run 1) (alchemy.run 2) That matters because Cloudflare’s own automatic setup still depends on framework detection and Wrangler, its command-line deployment tool. Cloudflare says `wrangler deploy` or `wrangler setup` can detect Vite projects, generate a `wrangler.jsonc` file, and add deploy scripts, but the exact output varies by framework. (developers.cloudflare.com) Alchemy’s pitch is that it removes some of the extra wiring around local development. In an August 5, 2025 post, Alchemy said its Vite plugin replaced Cloudflare’s plugin in `vite.config.ts` and eliminated the need for a `.dev.vars` file, Wrangler state-path setup, and other boilerplate in supported frameworks. (alchemy.run 1) (alchemy.run 2) Alchemy said the problem showed up when developers used `alchemy deploy` with Cloudflare bindings such as secrets. According to the company, deployment passed those bindings through, but `alchemy dev` could miss them because Cloudflare’s Vite plugin only loaded environment variables from `.dev.vars`. (alchemy.run) For simple Vite sites, the practical effect is a narrower setup path: Vite for the app, Cloudflare for hosting, and Alchemy handling the deployment glue. For more complex apps, Cloudflare’s official plugin still exposes Workers-specific features such as bindings, preview in the Workers runtime, and server-side rendering support for React Router and TanStack Start. (alchemy.run) (developers.cloudflare.com) The result is not a new hosting platform so much as a new default for teams that already ship Vite apps to Cloudflare. The fewer files they have to touch before the first deploy, the closer “just use Vite” gets to being literally true. (blog.cloudflare.com) (alchemy.run)