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ref PLA-96

Switches the 8 admin-surface apps to build with Rolldown via rolldown-vite (the Vite-7-API fork that swaps Vite's Rollup+esbuild pair for the Rust bundler). This is the productionised outcome of the PLA-96 spike.

What

Adds a rolldown named catalog in pnpm-workspace.yaml:

catalogs:
  rolldown:
    vite: 'npm:rolldown-vite@7.3.1'

…and the 8 admin-surface apps opt in by changing their vite dep from "vite": "catalog:" to "vite": "catalog:rolldown":

admin, shade, admin-x-framework, posts, stats, admin-x-settings, activitypub, admin-x-design-system

No app config changes are needed — Rolldown is a drop-in for these. The version stays defined once (in the catalog), while each app's package.json now visibly declares that it builds on rolldown.

Note on mechanism: rolldown-vite is a drop-in replacement for the vite package — Vite 7 has no config switch to select the bundler — so adoption is expressed as a dependency alias. A named catalog keeps that explicit and per-app while respecting catalogMode: strict.

Why the public apps are excluded

A repo-wide swap breaks the public UMD apps: portal sets manualChunks: false in its output options, which Rolldown rejects (TypeError: manualChunks is not a function), and Vite deprecates optimizeDeps.rollupOptionsrolldownOptions. Those apps (portal, comments-ui, signup-form, sodo-search, announcement-bar) stay on the stock vite catalog and need their own config work — a follow-up.

Why rolldown-vite@7, not Vite 8

Vite 8 also ships Rolldown, but bundles Vite-8 API changes on top. Pinning to the 7.x line isolates the bundler swap (validated here) from the Vite-8 API migration (a separate, later step). rolldown-vite carries an npm deprecation notice pointing at Vite 8 — that's expected; it's the supported Vite-7 migration path.

Benchmarks

Local vite build, min of 3 runs, Vite 7.3.2 + Rollup → rolldown-vite 7.3.1:

app Rollup Rolldown speedup
admin-x-framework 0.57s 0.46s 1.2×
shade 0.71s 0.56s 1.3×
admin-x-design-system 0.81s 0.70s 1.2×
activitypub 3.66s 0.76s 4.8×
stats 5.24s 0.96s 5.5×
admin-x-settings 5.49s 1.14s 4.8×
posts 7.91s 1.02s 7.8×
admin 11.67s 1.36s 8.6×

Output is byte-equivalent — a clean single admin build is 14.94 MB / 129 chunks on Rolldown vs 15.05 MB / 142 chunks on Rollup (one shared en chunk and one koenig chunk each; no duplication).

Validation

  • All 8 apps build.
  • All frontend test suites pass under rolldown-vite (shade, admin-x-framework, posts, stats, admin-x-settings, activitypub, admin, admin-x-design-system — ~1,800 tests).
  • Confirmed public apps stay on stock Vite and portal still builds.

CI here is the real assertion — it exercises the full build + test + lint + typecheck matrix, plus ghost/core, which the local run doesn't cover.

Note

While benchmarking I hit a latent quirk in apps/admin/vite-ember-assets.ts: closeBundle copies assets into dist/ and back without clearing, so repeated non-clean builds accumulate stale chunks. Not caused by this change and not fixed here — flagging for a small separate cleanup.

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The workspace now defines a catalog.rolldown entry that maps vite to npm:rolldown-vite@7.3.1 with comments describing its intended use. Several package manifests update their vite devDependency reference from the default catalog to catalog:rolldown.

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E2E Tests Failed

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ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/PLA-96/spike-rolldown-vite-drop-in-build-benchmarks

- Rolldown is a drop-in for the Rollup+esbuild pair Vite uses; the PLA-96 spike confirmed all 8 admin apps build and pass their test suites unchanged, with 5-8x faster production builds (admin 11.7s -> 1.4s) and byte-equivalent output
- the 8 apps opt in by pointing their vite dep at a new `rolldown` named catalog (catalog:rolldown -> npm:rolldown-vite@7.3.1) so the opt-in is visible in each app's package.json; public UMD apps (portal, comments-ui, etc.) stay on the stock `vite` catalog because they carry bundler-specific config (e.g. portal's manualChunks:false) that Rolldown rejects and needs separate work
- pinning rolldown-vite to the 7.x line (Vite 7 API) deliberately isolates the bundler swap from the Vite 8 API changes, which are a later step
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E2E Tests Failed

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ref PLA-96

- Under rolldown-vite, plugin-react 4.7.0 ran JSX through the babel
  transform, emitting an invalid top-level "jsx" option warning and a
  [vite:react-babel] recommendation to switch to plugin-react-oxc.
- plugin-react-oxc is now deprecated in favour of plugin-react v5+, which
  auto-detects rolldown-vite and routes JSX through the Oxc transform, so
  the admin-surface configs keep a bare react() call with no plugin swap.
- Public UMD apps stay on stock vite@7.3.2 and fall back to the babel
  transform, which v5.2.0 still supports (vite ^7 peer).
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