diff --git a/apps/wing/project-templates/wing/react-vite/backend/main.w b/apps/wing/project-templates/wing/react-vite/backend/main.w
index 2a86fb86de4..9142dc01dd6 100644
--- a/apps/wing/project-templates/wing/react-vite/backend/main.w
+++ b/apps/wing/project-templates/wing/react-vite/backend/main.w
@@ -4,18 +4,12 @@ bring vite;
 bring http;
 bring "./broadcaster.w" as broadcaster;
 
-// Winglang doesn't have a built-in support for __dirname yet, so we use a workaround to get the current directory.
-// @see tracking issue: https://github.com/winglang/wing/issues/3736
-class Utils {
-  extern "utils.js" pub static __dirname(): str;
-}
-
 let myBroadcaster = new broadcaster.Broadcaster() as "Broadcaster";
 let api = new cloud.Api(cors: true);
 let counter = new cloud.Counter();
 
 let website = new vite.Vite(
-  root: "{Utils.__dirname()}/../frontend",
+  root: "{@dirname}/../frontend",
   publicEnv: {
     TITLE: "Wing + Vite + React",
     API_URL: api.url,
diff --git a/apps/wing/project-templates/wing/react-vite/backend/utils.js b/apps/wing/project-templates/wing/react-vite/backend/utils.js
deleted file mode 100644
index e89ea1e8cd3..00000000000
--- a/apps/wing/project-templates/wing/react-vite/backend/utils.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-exports.__dirname = () => __dirname;