@fengxinming use pure configuration like this:

export default defineConfig(({ mode }) => {
 return {
 // other configuration
 esbuild: {
 pure: ['console.log'],
 }
 }
}

if you just want to remove console.log when build production dist (but keep it in development env or staging env), you can use pure configuration like this:

export default defineConfig(({ mode }) => {
 return {
 // other configuration
 esbuild: {
 pure: mode === 'production' ? ['console.log'] : [],
 }
 }
}

This doesn't work in my config. Vite ^5.1.4 for console logs coming from external deps that are bundled. Any tips?

The problem was my deps had changed console to some other minified name l.warn so I had to add a manual pure for that.

Note that using pure may keep function calls in the arguments part.

For example console.assert(isValid(v), "Invalid value", v) will be replaced with isValid(v) if console.assert is defined as "pure", but isValid is not.

Unfortunately there is no fine grained built-in way to drop only some methods of console with their arguments, for example dropping console.log, but keeping console.error.

pure: ['console.log']并不是单纯移除,可能会导致严重的后果,请谨慎使用