How does this compare to https://www.snowpack.dev/ ?
Esbuild 0.9
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Re: Esbuild 0.9
#12How does this compare to https://www.snowpack.dev/ ?
SnowPack is more of an all-in-one kind of tool (with dev server, HMR, etc.). Also it uses esbuild internally :-)
https://www.snowpack.dev/guides/optimize-and-bundle#option-1...
Re: Esbuild 0.9
#13esbuild makes it pretty clear that writing the JS ecosystem in JS is a bad choice*. now we need to rewrite tsc/babel/npm/eslint/etc... in a language that compile down to native binary that is also cross platform (like go or rust), to gain the same performance improvements across the entire JS tool-chain. * based on the benchmark on their landing page.
I think this comment undervalues the quality of engineering that Evan has put into esbuild. It’s not only quick because it’s written in golang, but also due to the decisions taken in architecture and an opinionated tool that does mainly one thing well.
Re: Esbuild 0.9
#14Hell yes, esbuild is an amazing tool. I not only use it in most CRA projects (where it replaces webpack and builds everything at least two times faster), but it's also easy to use for plain HTML pages to add some interactivity without writing thousands of lines of webpack black magic: esbuild App.tsx --define:process.env.NODE_ENV=\\\"production\\\" --bundle --minify --target=es6 --outfile=out.js where App.tsx is your…
do you have instructions for integrating with cra
Re: Esbuild 0.9
#15Re: Esbuild 0.9
#16Hell yes, esbuild is an amazing tool. I not only use it in most CRA projects (where it replaces webpack and builds everything at least two times faster), but it's also easy to use for plain HTML pages to add some interactivity without writing thousands of lines of webpack black magic: esbuild App.tsx --define:process.env.NODE_ENV=\\\"production\\\" --bundle --minify --target=es6 --outfile=out.js where App.tsx is your…
esbuild can be a good alternative to Webpack in some cases, but Webpack solves a lot of edge cases well. For example, just today I debugged an issue where a library had used `require` in an ES module instead of `import`, and that broke the build with esbuild. So I had to fork the library to fix that issue. Webpack handles that case without problems.
I can think of at least a few cases like that where Webpack works better, but esbuild is (hopefully) going to catch up. It'd be ideal if Webpack and other bundler tools ditched their homegrown build tools and replaced them with esbuild.
Re: Esbuild 0.9
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#18How does this compare to https://www.snowpack.dev/ ?
Snowpack is a bundler, not a build tool. It works with a variety of file formats, and it uses esbuild to compile JS/TS assets.
Re: Esbuild 0.9
#19ESbuild is excellent for using with TypeScript and Node.js. We were previously using Nodemon to restart the server on changes. ESbuild is fast enough that rather than having to change our workflow and run a tsc --watch process in addition to Nodemon (which would be rather a pain given that we have 5-6 microservices), we simply use ESbuild to recompile the entire service before restarting the code (it takes about 0.1 seconds to compile everything, so it effectively doesn't impact our workflow at all).
Re: Esbuild 0.9
#20Hell yes, esbuild is an amazing tool. I not only use it in most CRA projects (where it replaces webpack and builds everything at least two times faster), but it's also easy to use for plain HTML pages to add some interactivity without writing thousands of lines of webpack black magic: esbuild App.tsx --define:process.env.NODE_ENV=\\\"production\\\" --bundle --minify --target=es6 --outfile=out.js where App.tsx is your…
do you have instructions for integrating with cra
Unfortunately it's not officially supported (as usual in CRA world), so you have to resort to one of the config rewriters. I've been using this⁰ and only had one problem with numeric enums in TypeScript. I don't remember the exact issue, but it was caused by my own stupidity, and was easy to fix.
[0] https://github.com/pradel/create-react-app-esbuild/tree/main...