A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler and minifier
Interesting work by Evan Wallace, a JS bundler/minifier written in Go. Since it compiles down to native code, it’s fast: My main benchmark approximates a large codebase by duplicating the three.js library 10 times and building a single bundle from scratch, without any caches. For this benchmark, esbuild is 10-100x faster than the other JavaScript …
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Interesting take on bundlers: Over the last several years, JavaScript bundling has morphed from a production-only optimization into a required build step for most web applications. Whether you love this or hate it, it’s hard to deny that bundlers have added a ton of new complexity to web development – a field of development that …
Earlier this week Parcel got dropped and it received quite some attention, because it tackles two important things when compared to other bundlers such as Webpack: The first reason I was motivated to build a new bundler was performance. I’ve worked on some pretty large apps with thousands of modules, and was always disappointed with …
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