Tearing Down the Build: The Vite/Source Admin Rebuild
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On October 1, 2025, Brett decided to change the method of construction for the RABS admin frontend. The compiled dist/vendor-template pages that had served the project since its earliest days were being scrapped in favor of source HTML under src/html, Vite-built static/multi-page output, and modular per-page JavaScript loaded on demand. Over five turbulent days — punctuated by context window overflows, terminal crashes, and the discovery that an entire night's work had been destroyed — the admin frontend was restructured from the ground up.