If you heard of Snowpack, you may be familiar with ESBuild. ESBuild is one of the fastest bundler/compilers for frontend libraries. ESBuild is written in Golang, which makes it fast. ESBuild is not a complete solution for your all needs. However, implementing it in your pipeline significantly can improve your team productivity and deployment build time.
Prerequisite:
- Go [v1.6 and above]
- NPM (nodejs package manager)
Note: ESBuild is also available in nodejs. However, I find using Go and creating binary CLI is much faster and reusable.
Why should I use ESBuild when I have webpack?
There is no reason that you should stop using webpack . But there are a lot of reasons you can at least start thinking of using ESBuild. Some of the best ones are given below. For more info, you can visit the official page.
- It’s written in Go and compiles to native code.
- Parallelism is used heavily.
- Memory is used efficiently.
- Loaders and plugins added by default
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