How to use alternative index.html path in dev mode

[wclr]

This is a very simple question.

I have a file located in the project ./some/index.dev.html that contains html I want it to be served by vite dev server from / url. And also I would like this file to be watched by Vite, so I get auto-reload.

I don't get why I can not easily configure this in vite. I have a solution to use plugin (transformIndexHtml which will "manually" load the content, or configureServer middlware), though in this case I still need to have dummy index.html in the project root, because vite won't work without one, and also this file won't be watched in this case.

Maybe I don't understand something here?

UPD:
Just noticed that vite watches changes for all *.html files and reloads the page. Rather impicit behaviour.

[ilxqx]

Hi, do you have found a solution? I did something amazing, I virtualized the loading of index.html. Building is fine, but there are issues during serve. Vite dev server prompts that it can't find index.html, which is quite awkward.

[wclr]

I use transformIndexHtml to get index.html content I need, and I have dummy index.html in the project's root folder for vite not work. There is a little bit of shame =).

[ilxqx]

I submitted an improvement issue to the official team: #18984, not sure if it will be taken seriously~~~