Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler

Post by aidos » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 1:05 PM UTC

maga wrote: post #157

antihero wrote: post #148

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We're using Vite and enjoying it, would you say much of Vite could be replaced with pure esbuild? I guess Vite provides a nice development experience but is built on esbuild.

I guess it depends on your project and workflow preferences. Personally, I'm not a big fan of HMR and the bundling times are negligible even without "pre-bundling" npm dependencies (as Vite puts), so I see little reason for Vite.

    import { resolve } from 'path'
    
    import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
    import reactRefresh from '@vitejs/plugin-react-refresh'
    
    
    export default defineConfig({
      plugins: [reactRefresh()],
      build: {
        rollupOptions: {
          input: {
            index: resolve(__dirname, 'index.html'),
          }
        },
        sourcemap: true
      },
      esbuild: {
        jsxInject: `import * as React from "react"`
      },
      resolve: {
        alias: [
          { find: '@', replacement: '/src' },
        ]
      },
    })

Post by alvarlagerlof » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 1:06 PM UTC

ep103 wrote: post #136

swhitf wrote: post #113

You know you are getting old when you watch the arrival of the fourth JavaScript build tool of your career. I still remember when everyone was waving goodbye to Gulp in favour of Webpack. Webpack was going to save us all from the hell of massive convoluted gulp.js files. Fast forward five years and it's the same mess it was supposed to avoid. Slow, bloated and confusing. I just switched to esbuild on our main project…

5 if you include grunt. 6 if you include bash/make for using manual scripts to productionize your yui / jqueryUi / mooTools code with uglify/browserify/gcc/etc

Post by atonse » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 1:09 PM UTC

DrBazza wrote: post #115

eloff wrote: post #91

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I came here too say this. The man authored in the neighborhood of 100k LOC in a year, just on this. There's a living 10x dev, it's not a myth. What is ridiculous is to think someone can 10x a normal developer, it's more like the difference between the top few percent and the bottom 10-20%. Evan Wallace is a beast, no doubt.

I really wish people would stop idolising so called '10x' developers. Anyone that is comfortable and familiar with their toolset (e.g. go, .NET, Java, C++) and has a deep understanding of a problem (and has likely solved it once already), can churn out code far, far, faster than an onlooker.

Post by terpimost » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 1:14 PM UTC

Post by praveenperera » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 1:18 PM UTC

maga wrote: post #110

Often overlooked things when discussing esbuild here: 1. It's not just a faster replacement for a single %tool_name% in your build chain: for the vast majority of cases, it's the whole "chain" in a single cli command if you're doing it right. That is, you don't just stick it inside, say, webpack as a faster replacement for babel (although you can). No, you look carefully through your webpack configs and its myriad of…