Migrating a Webpack-Era Federated Module to Vite...

A practical guide to migrating a federated remote to Vite, based on lessons from a real migration. I was tasked with updating a legacy React application that did not support Module Federation. That integration was added first so the app could run as a remote inside a larger host application. Later, the remote needed to migrate from Create React App (CRA) to Vite. By that point, the host already depended on the remote's loading behavior. The tricky part was not replacing CRA with Vite. It was pre