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Mar 22, 2022 · Frontend Development

Why Vite Builds Blank on iOS 11 and How to Fix It with esbuild Target Settings

After upgrading a project to Vite, users on iOS 11 experienced blank pages due to compatibility issues caused by esbuild’s minification generating modern syntax; the article explains the root cause, examines legacy plugin settings, and shows how explicitly setting esbuild.target to 'es6' (or using terser) resolves the problem.