index.html vs. master.blade.php with vite in production

Despite many docs & plugins I've had quite a challenge getting vite to production.

When I build locally npm run build I see the site as it is supposed to look. However, when building locally and pushing to production the entry file uses index.html which is a very simple page blank page.

How do you handle this?

I found rollupOptions for the vite config where we may override the default entry point of /public/index.html, but this caused errors because vite cannot interpret blade.

// vite.config.js
import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
import laravel from 'laravel-vite-plugin'
import vue from '@vitejs/plugin-vue'
import path from 'path'
import manifestSRI from 'vite-plugin-manifest-sri'
....
plugins: [
                laravel({
                    input: [
                        'resources/css/app.css',
                        'resources/js/app.js'
                    ],
                    refresh: ['resources/views/**'],
                    manifest: true
                }),
                vue({
                    template: {
                        transformAssetUrls: {
                            base: null,
                            includeAbsolute: false
                        }
                    }
                }),
                manifestSRI()
            ],
...
    build: {
                rollupOptions: {
                    input: {
                        app: './resources/views/layouts/master.blade.php' // default
                    }
                },

Andre's video is not using the rollupOptions. https://github.com/laracasts/lc-vite-example/blob/main/vite.config.js