chore: use oxc-transform-react instead of babel

[DMartens]

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What is the purpose of this pull request?

Use the native React compiler pipeline instead of babel.
This should give a speedup and we can remove the babel dependency as we do not use it for other transformations.

What changes did you make? (Give an overview)

Applied the steps in the migration guide for vite:

• Remove babel dependencies and references in the vite config
• Use oxc-transform-react by passing compiler: true to the react vite plugin

I could not use the latest version of oxc-transform (0.149.0) as this gave peer dependency issues.

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• Refactor
  • Updated the build configuration to enable React Compiler support directly through the React tooling.
  • Replaced the previous Babel-based transformation setup with the newer React transformation tooling.

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The build configuration replaces Babel-based React compiler integration with oxc-transform-react and enables the compiler through @vitejs/plugin-react.

Changes

React compiler migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
React compiler plugin configuration vite.config.ts, package.json	vite.config.ts removes the Babel plugin and enables react({ compiler: true }). package.json removes the Babel dependencies and adds oxc-transform-react version 0.145.0.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Suggested reviewers: pixel998

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The build switches React compiler integration from Babel to the supported Oxc-based plugin path. Dependency and plugin resolution are consistent, so the change is mergeable after normal checks.

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[Pixel998]

The changes LGTM and I verified the compiled output matches what we get from Babel today.

That said, I don't think we should do the migration yet. The compiler option in @vitejs/plugin-react is still marked experimental, and its peer dependency pins oxc-transform-react to ^0.145.0, so we couldn't take updates (as you already hit with 0.149.0). Let's revisit once the integration is stable.