Line limit option (lineLimit) breaks code about esbuild HOT 3 CLOSED

My guess is that Vite does a find and replace on __VITE_PRELOAD__ which breaks when the slash newline is introduced, but I can't say for sure.

That's my guess as well given your description, and given that I think I've read of Vite doing other things like that in the past. But that's not a problem with esbuild. If you need to post-process esbuild's output with such a tool, then perhaps you don't want to use the line limit setting? Either that or the other tool would have to be fixed.

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I was wondering if there wasn't already a way to preserve strings through either comment or some option in existing minifiers like terser, but I can't seem to find any. This is probably a very rare edge-case that I stumbled upon.

I'll make a cross-post to Vite to see if they can cover this edge-case.

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I'm closing this issue because this is not a problem with esbuild. The strings that esbuild is generating are still valid JavaScript strings. It makes sense that tools using regexp-based post-processing don't automatically work with JavaScript like that, but in that case you should be able to disable the line limit setting until the other tools are fixed (or if they decide that it's not a problem worth fixing).

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