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An extremely fast bundler for the web

78 mentions on Hacker News by 66 people: 10 stories, 68 comments · first 2020-02-15 · latest 2026-07-14

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  1. …any of the other existing features. There are some recent updates at the bottom of this thread: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/253 .
    comment by constexpr · 2021-02-16 · in Why Is Esbuild Fast?
  2. It's part of the language, but not so much thoroughly vetted. The Chrome/V8 implementation has bugs. https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/253#issuecomment-773...
    comment by sknowieowl · 2021-02-16 · in Why Is Esbuild Fast?
  3. …in-depth architectural docs for complex projects like this are exceptionally rare. [1]: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/blob/master/docs/architectu...
    comment by rtsao · 2021-02-16 · in Why Is Esbuild Fast?
  4. …vs a project installed via npm vs one installed via yarn v2... [0] https://hegel.js.org/ [1] https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/79
    comment by lhorie · 2021-02-16 · in Why Is Esbuild Fast?
  5. Look at how good the release notes are: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/releases Some serious work there.
    comment by Thaxll · 2021-02-16 · in Why Is Esbuild Fast?
  6. …poor proxy for productivity, but is at least not quite as bad as the pure "lines added" metric. [0] https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/graphs/code-frequency
    comment by lucideer · 2021-02-16 · in Why Is Esbuild Fast?
  7. …280k lines, that's almost 1000 lines per day every day since he started. Amazingly productive. [0]: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/blob/master/internal/js_par...
    comment by filleokus · 2021-02-16 · in Why Is Esbuild Fast?
  8. Eventually the packing part can be done in a compiled language. https://github.com/evanw/esbuild is very fast at doing some things already but not others. And I guess webpack wins because you can configure it to do anything easily already?…
    comment by nikivi · 2020-10-10 · in Webpack 5
  9. There are efforts to provide faster compilation times: - https://github.com/evanw/esbuild - awesome, I use it for most of my ts projects - https://swc-project.github.io/ - also awesome, but has some bugs
    comment by 112 · 2020-06-22 · in Deno will stop using TypeScript
  10. …JavaScript/TypeScript bundler written in Go that's 10-100x faster than Webpack, Rollup, and Parcel: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild
    comment by constexpr · 2020-06-21 · in Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
  11. …[2]: https://github.com/vitejs/vite [3]: https://github.com/typeofweb/functional-orm [4]: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild [5]: https://sqorn.org/docs/about.html
    comment by zaiste · 2020-06-11 · in Show HN: Kretes – Build full-stack applications in TypeScript and PostgreSQL
  12. …I see the future of web tooling as not necessarily written in (or compiled to) JavaScript. [0] https://github.com/evanw/esbuild
    comment by eatonphil · 2020-06-09 · in Design Doc: Use JavaScript instead of TypeScript for internal Deno Code
  13. I'd replace Parcel with https://github.com/evanw/esbuild
    comment by nikivi · 2020-06-07 · in From Rust to Svelte, what tech stack will I use
  14. …to run destructors on the same thread. ESBuild is a really impressive performance-oriented project: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild The Rust version also had other problems. Many places in my code had switch statements that branched over…
    comment by chubot · 2020-05-31 · in Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make your code 10000x faster
  15. Shaking up the JavaScript build tool ecosystem with https://github.com/evanw/esbuild , a bundler and minifier that's 10x-100x faster than industry-standard ones (Webpack/Rollup/Parcel).
    comment by constexpr · 2020-05-14 · in Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
  16. esbuild can compile typescript a couple orders of magnitude faster: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/81#issuecomment-6250... though i think it just strips the typescript annotations. but this may be workable if during dev there's…
    comment by leeoniya · 2020-05-13 · in Deno 1.0
  17. …e.g. https://swc-project.github.io/ , https://packem.github.io/ , https://github.com/nathan/pax , https://github.com/evanw/esbuild . On the other hand, Yarn is written in JS and it is considered fast enough. Facebook has a good track…
    comment by warpech · 2020-02-27 · in Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain
  18. …smaller. I haven't looked at the gzip sizes at all yet and there is room for improvement. Check out https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/6#issuecomment-58667... for an idea of what specific numbers might currently look like for esbuild…
    comment by constexpr · 2020-02-16 · in ESbuild – A fast JavaScript bundler and minifier in Go