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Alchemy's Cloudflare Vite Plugin

Aug 5, 2025

Alchemy now ships with plugins for Vite, Astro, SvelteKit, Nuxt, React Router, and TanStack Start that streamline local development by eliminating the need for a .dev.vars file, configuration of wrangler state paths, and other boilerplate.

Note

TLDR: update your vite.config.ts file to use the alchemy plugin instead of the cloudflare plugin for a smoother experience:

import { defineConfig } from "vite";
import { cloudflare } from "@cloudflare/vite-plugin";
import alchemy from "alchemy/cloudflare/vite";

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [cloudflare()],
  plugins: [alchemy()],
});

What is Alchemy

Jul 1, 2025

Alchemy is an embeddable Infrastructure-as-Code library written in pure TypeScript that runs anywhere JavaScript runs. Learn how it differs from traditional IaC tools.

Why IaC needs to be un-bundled

Apr 8, 2025

After a decade of wrestling with CloudFormation, CDK, Pulumi, and Terraform, I built my own minimal IaC library in pure TypeScript. Here’s why I think it’s time to “un-bundle” Infrastructure-as-Code and return to simplicity.