esbuild is a FAST bundler ‪⚡‬ 3 Minutes with Kent

Hey folks, so today I want to tell you about ES. Build so if you haven't
heard of ES. Build it's been making a lot of noise recently. I think it's I
I didn't check but I think it's been around for at least a year. I think is
the first time I heard of it.
But basically, it is kind of you you can think of it as a bundler like
webpack but written and go and apparently go as much better suited for
bundler tasks because it is wicked fast. Like I've tried it myself and you
think that it's broken.Because it's so fast like you think it just didn't
run and because you execute ES build and it's instantly done.
It's it's outrageously cool. And so it's starting to take over I've noticed
in lots of different areas like the new meta frameworks that I'm seeing are
using ES build bite the the view meta framework tool. I think it's like
gonna be the new view CLI or something eventually but it's powered by ES
build Remix, they're currently working on moving over to ES build.
I I'm using ES Build in MDX Bundler and a couple of the like newer smaller
things like from Jason Miller the creator of Preact he's using ES build for
his thing WMR or something. I think is what is called um, but yeah, it's
just like oh and there's a new testing firmware called UVU that is using
ES.
Build under the hood to just be just outrageously fast. For compiling
typescript and everything. The only downside to using ES build currently
that I can see is there's,No support for custom babble plugins which is a
shame but these days I don't really use custom babble plugins for anything
other than like code transformations like like code gen or prevalent and
these are macros and I'm thinking we may be able to make a macros sort of
plug-in thing that works with ES build.
So that's that's something I still need to investigate but and I think some
people have tried some experiments to make Babel work with the US build but
when you start doing that stuff, you kind of negate all of the benefits.The
performance benefits of ease build because then you have to do AST
compilation in node again and yeah that can be slow.
So anyway, if you haven't looked into ES build yet. I'm not telling you
that you need to take your work application and and migrate everything from
webpack over to ES build, but it is pretty powerful and it's something to
keep an eye out for and there are other things.
I think there was one like SWC or something like that, that's written in
rest. But yeah, it's exciting times and I thought I'd just share that with
you. Hope you have an awesome day. We'll,Talk to you later.