What is Esbuild?
It is an extremely fast JavaScript and CSS bundler and minifier. Current build tools for the web are 10-100x slower than they could be. The main goal of this project is to bring about a new era of build tool performance, and create an easy-to-use modern bundler along the way.
Esbuild is a tool in the JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners category of a tech stack.
Esbuild is an open source tool with 37.1K GitHub stars and 1.1K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Esbuild's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Esbuild?
Companies
31 companies reportedly use Esbuild in their tech stacks, including Shelf, truedoc-client, and Backend.
Developers
85 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Esbuild.
Esbuild Integrations
Esbuild's Features
- Extreme speed without needing a cache
- ES6 and CommonJS modules
- Tree shaking of ES6 modules
- An API for JavaScript and Go
- TypeScript and JSX syntax
- Source maps
- Minification
- Plugins
Esbuild Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Esbuild?
Webpack
A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows to load parts for the application on demand. Through "loaders" modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.
gulp
Build system automating tasks: minification and copying of all JavaScript files, static images. More capable of watching files to automatically rerun the task when a file changes.
Grunt
The less work you have to do when performing repetitive tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, linting, etc, the easier your job becomes. After you've configured it, a task runner can do most of that mundane work for you—and your team—with basically zero effort.
rollup
It is a module bundler for JavaScript which compiles small pieces of code into something larger and more complex, such as a library or application. It uses the new standardized format for code modules included in the ES6 revision of JavaScript, instead of previous idiosyncratic solutions such as CommonJS and AMD.
Vite
It is an opinionated web dev build tool that serves your code via native ES Module imports during dev and bundles it with Rollup for production.
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