Fix canSkipBabel not checking babel.overrides

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Fix canSkipBabel to account for babel.overrides

• Understand the issue: canSkipBabel function doesn't check babelOptions.overrides.length
• Add babelOptions.overrides.length check to the canSkipBabel function
• Update CHANGELOG.md with a note about the fix
• Update CHANGELOG with correct PR number (Fix canSkipBabel not checking babel.overrides #1098)
• Build and validate the changes

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>canSkipBabel does not account for overrides, causing Babel to be skipped entirely</issue_title>
<issue_description>### Related plugins

• plugin-react

• plugin-react-swc

• plugin-react-oxc

• plugin-rsc

Describe the bug

When configuring babel.overrides without any top-level plugins or presets, the canSkipBabel function incorrectly determines that Babel can be skipped. This causes override test functions/patterns to never be evaluated, and override plugins to never run.

The test callback is never invoked. No override plugins are applied.

https://github.com/vitejs/vite-plugin-react/blob/main/packages/plugin-react/src/index.ts#L563-L573

function canSkipBabel(
  plugins: ReactBabelOptions['plugins'],
  babelOptions: ReactBabelOptions,
) {
  return !(
    plugins.length ||
    babelOptions.presets.length ||
    babelOptions.configFile ||
    babelOptions.babelrc
  )
}

It does not check babelOptions.overrides.length. When overrides are the sole source of plugins, this function returns true and Babel is skipped.

This has two effects:

1. In configResolved (production builds or rolldown-vite), the entire transform handler is deleted via delete viteBabel.transform — Babel never runs.
2. In the per-file transform path, the early return at if (canSkipBabel(...)) return prevents Babel from processing the file.

Reproduction

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Steps to reproduce

react({
  babel: {
    overrides: [
      {
        plugins: ['babel-plugin-react-compiler'],
        test: /\+Page\.tsx?$/,
      },
      {
        plugins: ['babel-plugin-zod-hoist'],
        test: (filename) => {
          console.log('filename>>>', filename); // never fires
          return filename?.endsWith('.tsx') ?? false;
        },
      },
    ],
  },
}),

System Info

N/A

Used Package Manager

npm

Logs

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Validations

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• The provided reproduction is a minimal reproducible example of the bug.</issue_description>

<agent_instructions>Add the overrides.length check
Add a note in the changelog
no need to update tests</agent_instructions>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

@ArnaudBarre We can probably add `babelOptions.overrides.length` check. Out of curiosity, why do you have overrides without any plugins? (I never used the babel overrides option so I don't know its intent)

• Fixes canSkipBabel does not account for overrides, causing Babel to be skipped entirely #1097

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[ArnaudBarre]

@copilot The PR is 1098, update the changelog

[Copilot]

@copilot The PR is 1098, update the changelog

Updated in a74c426