diff --git a/.changeset/nervous-rivers-sneeze.md b/.changeset/nervous-rivers-sneeze.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f3a5550ead
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/nervous-rivers-sneeze.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+'@backstage/backend-common': patch
+'@backstage/cli': patch
+---
+
+Switch out `sucrase` for `swc` for transpilation
diff --git a/packages/cli/package.json b/packages/cli/package.json
index f70eacf768..28e72fe02f 100644
--- a/packages/cli/package.json
+++ b/packages/cli/package.json
@@ -37,8 +37,6 @@
     "@backstage/errors": "^1.1.0",
     "@backstage/release-manifests": "^0.0.5",
     "@backstage/types": "^1.0.0",
-    "@hot-loader/react-dom-v16": "npm:@hot-loader/react-dom@^16.0.2",
-    "@hot-loader/react-dom-v17": "npm:@hot-loader/react-dom@^17.0.2",
     "@manypkg/get-packages": "^1.1.3",
     "@octokit/request": "^6.0.0",
     "@pmmmwh/react-refresh-webpack-plugin": "^0.5.4",
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/lib/bundler/config.ts b/packages/cli/src/lib/bundler/config.ts
index 0a8f8e988b..f98d72b02b 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/lib/bundler/config.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/lib/bundler/config.ts
@@ -135,21 +135,6 @@ export async function createConfig(
     }),
   );
 
-  // Detect and use the appropriate react-dom hot-loader patch based on what
-  // version of React is used within the target repo.
-  const resolveAliases: Record<string, string> = {};
-  try {
-    // eslint-disable-next-line import/no-extraneous-dependencies
-    const { version: reactDomVersion } = require('react-dom/package.json');
-    if (reactDomVersion.startsWith('16.')) {
-      resolveAliases['react-dom'] = '@hot-loader/react-dom-v16';
-    } else {
-      resolveAliases['react-dom'] = '@hot-loader/react-dom-v17';
-    }
-  } catch (error) {
-    console.warn(`WARNING: Failed to read react-dom version, ${error}`);
-  }
-
   const resolvePlugins: webpack.ResolvePluginInstance[] = [
     new LinkedPackageResolvePlugin(paths.rootNodeModules, externalPkgs),
   ];
@@ -194,7 +179,6 @@ export async function createConfig(
         util: require.resolve('util/'),
       },
       plugins: resolvePlugins,
-      alias: resolveAliases,
     },
     module: {
       rules: loaders,
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 6f875d7821..3e6f9d0dae 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -3221,25 +3221,6 @@
   dependencies:
     "@hapi/hoek" "^9.0.0"
 
-"@hot-loader/react-dom-v16@npm:@hot-loader/react-dom@^16.0.2":
-  version "16.14.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/@hot-loader/react-dom/-/react-dom-16.14.0.tgz#3cfc64e40bb78fa623e59b582b8f09dcdaad648a"
-  integrity sha512-EN9czvcLsMYmSDo5yRKZOAq3ZGRlDpad1gPtX0NdMMomJXcPE3yFSeFzE94X/NjOaiSVimB7LuqPYpkWVaIi4Q==
-  dependencies:
-    loose-envify "^1.1.0"
-    object-assign "^4.1.1"
-    prop-types "^15.6.2"
-    scheduler "^0.19.1"
-
-"@hot-loader/react-dom-v17@npm:@hot-loader/react-dom@^17.0.2":
-  version "17.0.2"
-  resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/@hot-loader/react-dom/-/react-dom-17.0.2.tgz#0b24e484093e8f97eb5c72bebdda44fc20bc8400"
-  integrity sha512-G2RZrFhsQClS+bdDh/Ojpk3SgocLPUGnvnJDTQYnmKSSwXtU+Yh+8QMs+Ia3zaAvBiOSpIIDSUxuN69cvKqrWg==
-  dependencies:
-    loose-envify "^1.1.0"
-    object-assign "^4.1.1"
-    scheduler "^0.20.2"
-
 "@humanwhocodes/config-array@^0.10.4":
   version "0.10.4"
   resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/@humanwhocodes/config-array/-/config-array-0.10.4.tgz#01e7366e57d2ad104feea63e72248f22015c520c"