Do we really need `vite-manifest.json` in publicly accessible build dir?

[frederikhors]

Describe the problem

I'm using latest stable Kit ("@sveltejs/kit": "1.0.3") and "@sveltejs/adapter-static": "1.0.0" with SSR disabled at all.

After npm run build I get a vite-manifest.json file in build dir.

Since this file is then publicly served to the world, I would like to understand if it is strictly necessary or if we can do without it.

Thanks for your immense work!

[Rich-Harris]

Honestly I'm a bit confused by this myself. It seems very odd that we should need to write this file to the filesystem, instead of having it be returned from vite.build. I would definitely be in favour of removing it, though it might theoretically cause issues for other Vite plugins that need to read the manifest for whatever reason — @benmccann might have a better idea about whether we can safely get rid of it.

[benmccann]

I thought we were removing it in the very final build hook. We were doing that at some point I believe. Perhaps it got lost in some refactoring?

A longer-term fix would probably be to make improvements in Vite: vitejs/vite#9636