Distillation

🟡 (13:48) User asked if the Vite plugin can be used for deployment.
🟡 (13:48) Assistant investigated the Vite plugin and its features.
🔴 (13:48) The Vite plugin is a build-time and dev-time integration between Vite and the Workers runtime.
🔴 (13:48) The Vite plugin does not have a deploy capability.
🔴 (13:48) The Vite plugin is used for building front-end assets and Worker code for deployment to Cloudflare.
🔴 (13:48) The Vite plugin requires a Vite project and is not suitable for deploying prebuilt artifacts.
🔴 (13:48) The Assistant concluded that using the Vite plugin would be a layer mismatch for craft.
🔴 (13:48) The Assistant recommended shelling out to wrangler for deployment.
🔴 (13:48) The Assistant suggested using WRANGLER_BIN override + npx wrangler fallback for deployment.

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