Vite/SvelteKit failed to load config from vite.config.ts: The service was stopped, after running bun install or bun add

[VityaSchel]

What version of Bun is running?

All versions for the past half of year, currently on 1.2.1 still occurs

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 24.1.0 arm64 arm but it appears that this also happens on WSL

What steps can reproduce the bug?

1. Create sveltekit project with bun
2. Install all dependencies
3. Run it once, Vite caches dependencies
4. Install new dependency via bun install or bun add or bun remove (or aliases)
5. Now when you try to run bun dev you'll get:

failed to load config from /path/to/project/vite.config.ts
error when starting dev server:
Error: The service was stopped
    at <anonymous> (/path/to/project/node_modules/esbuild/lib/main.js:968:38)
    at <anonymous> (/path/to/project/node_modules/esbuild/lib/main.js:622:9)
    at afterClose (/path/to/project/node_modules/esbuild/lib/main.js:613:25)
    at emit (node:events:84:22)
    at endReadableNT (internal:streams/readable:862:50)
    at processTicksAndRejections (native:7:39)
error: script "dev" exited with code 1

What is the expected behavior?

Expected to run as with node.js runtime

What do you see instead?

The common fix is to delete node_modules and run bun install again. Many people are experiencing the issue in this discussion: vitejs/vite#17851

Additional information

Please do not close this issue or link me to a single place where it's tracked. Currently it seems that this discussion in Vite's repository is the only place where it's tracked. This has been happening for many months now and no fix or workaround aside from deleting node_modules was introduced.

Related issues:

• Vite/SvelteKit failed to load config from vite.config.ts #3705 (closed as not planned)
• Runtime Directory Caching Issue (breaks vite config files) #3216 (closed for some reason)
• Vite #250 (closed but this particular issue is not resolved)

[Cluster2a]

Same problem here, using docker: