We’ve seen many JavaScript frameworks built on top of bundlers like webpack and esbuild, but with the rise of Vite, there’s now an increasing number of frameworks inverting this model. Rather than needing their own plugin systems, we’re seeing frameworks that are themselves bundler plugins. To explain the tradeoffs between these approaches and what it means for us as framework consumers, we’ll have a deeper look at Remix, the popular React framework—why we recently transitioned from one model to the other, and what it took to convert Remix into a Vite plugin.