diff --git a/packages/plugin-react/package.json b/packages/plugin-react/package.json
index 799de6c6f991f5..1603887e323fce 100644
--- a/packages/plugin-react/package.json
+++ b/packages/plugin-react/package.json
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "tsc -p . -w --incremental",
     "build": "rimraf dist && run-s build-bundle build-types",
-    "build-bundle": "esbuild src/index.ts --bundle --platform=node --target=node12 --external:@babel/* --external:@rollup/* --external:resolve --external:react-refresh/* --outfile=dist/index.js",
+    "build-bundle": "esbuild src/index.ts --bundle --platform=node --target=node12 --external:@babel/* --external:@rollup/*  --external:react-refresh/* --outfile=dist/index.js",
     "build-types": "tsc -p . --emitDeclarationOnly --outDir temp && api-extractor run && rimraf temp",
     "changelog": "conventional-changelog -p angular -i CHANGELOG.md -s --commit-path . --lerna-package plugin-react",
     "release": "node ../../scripts/release.js --skipBuild"
@@ -38,8 +38,7 @@
     "@babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx-self": "^7.14.5",
     "@babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx-source": "^7.14.5",
     "@rollup/pluginutils": "^4.1.0",
-    "react-refresh": "^0.10.0",
-    "resolve": "^1.20.0"
+    "react-refresh": "^0.10.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "vite": "link:../vite"
diff --git a/packages/plugin-react/src/index.ts b/packages/plugin-react/src/index.ts
index 752448e81e0b81..4765a880a93e1e 100644
--- a/packages/plugin-react/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/plugin-react/src/index.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import type { ParserOptions, TransformOptions, types as t } from '@babel/core'
 import * as babel from '@babel/core'
 import { createFilter } from '@rollup/pluginutils'
-import resolve from 'resolve'
 import type { Logger, Plugin, PluginOption } from 'vite'
 import {
   addRefreshWrapper,
@@ -217,7 +216,7 @@ export default function viteReact(opts: Options = {}): PluginOption[] {
       config.plugins.forEach(
         (plugin) =>
           (plugin.name === 'react-refresh' ||
-            (plugin !== viteReactJsx && plugin.name === 'vite:react-jsx')) &&
+            plugin.name === 'vite:react-jsx') &&
           config.logger.warn(
             `[@vitejs/plugin-react] You should stop using "${plugin.name}" ` +
               `since this plugin conflicts with it.`
@@ -246,43 +245,7 @@ export default function viteReact(opts: Options = {}): PluginOption[] {
     }
   }
 
-  const runtimeId = 'react/jsx-runtime'
-  // Adapted from https://github.com/alloc/vite-react-jsx
-  const viteReactJsx: Plugin = {
-    name: 'vite:react-jsx',
-    enforce: 'pre',
-    config: () => ({
-      // react/jsx-runtime is in CJS format
-      // we want to explicitly cast it to ESM
-      optimizeDeps: {
-        include: ['react/jsx-runtime']
-      }
-    }),
-    resolveId(id: string) {
-      return id === runtimeId ? id : null
-    },
-    load(id: string) {
-      if (id === runtimeId) {
-        const runtimePath = resolve.sync(runtimeId, {
-          basedir: projectRoot
-        })
-        const exports = ['jsx', 'jsxs', 'Fragment']
-        return [
-          `import * as jsxRuntime from '${runtimePath}'`,
-          // We can't use `export * from` or else any callsite that uses
-          // this module will be compiled to `jsxRuntime.exports.jsx`
-          // instead of the more concise `jsx` alias.
-          ...exports.map((name) => `export const ${name} = jsxRuntime.${name}`)
-        ].join('\n')
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  return [
-    viteBabel,
-    viteReactRefresh,
-    opts.jsxRuntime === 'automatic' && viteReactJsx
-  ]
+  return [viteBabel, viteReactRefresh]
 }
 
 viteReact.preambleCode = preambleCode