esbuild is a
free and open-source
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module bundler and
minifier for
JavaScript and
CSS
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written by Evan Wallace. Written in
Go instead of JavaScript, esbuild claims to be "10 to 100 times" faster than other bundlers by using
parallelism and shared memory usage. It supports
TypeScript,
JSX,
tree-shaking and is extensible through
plugins
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.
Usage
esbuild is used in
Vite, a
front-end build-tool and development server, and the
Phoenix Framework. It is included as a bundler for
Angular since v17,
Ruby on Rails since v7, and for
Netlify Functions.
See also
*
Webpack
Webpack is a free and open-source module bundler for JavaScript. It is made primarily for JavaScript, but it can transform front-end assets such as HTML, CSS, and images if the corresponding loaders are included. Webpack takes modules with depen ...
*
Vite
References
External links
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JavaScript programming tools
Software using the MIT license
Free software programmed in Go
Cross-platform free software
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