Esbuild

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esbuild
Developer Evan Wallace  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Stable release
0.25.12 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 1 November 2025;7 days ago (1 November 2025)
Repository
Written in Go   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Operating system Cross-platform  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Type JavaScript bundler
License MIT License   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Website Official website OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

esbuild is a free and open-source module bundler and minifier for JavaScript and CSS [2] written by Evan Wallace. [3] [4] 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. [5] [6] [7] [8] 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, [9] Ruby on Rails since v7, [10] and for Netlify Functions. [11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Release 0.25.12". 1 November 2025. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  2. ↑ "esbuild - Content Types". esbuild.github.io. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
  3. ↑ Couriol, Bruno. "Esbuild JavaScript Bundler Claims 10-100x Faster Bundling Time". InfoQ. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  4. ↑ Rappl, Florian (30 November 2022). Modern Frontend Development with Node.js: A compendium for modern JavaScript web development within the Node.js ecosystem. Packt Publishing Ltd. p. 95. ISBN   978-1-80461-738-0 . Retrieved 10 November 2023. esbuild is quite a new tool that focuses on performance. The key to esbuild's enhanced performance is that it was written from the ground up in the Go...
  5. ↑ Tyson, Matthew (26 May 2021). "7 tools transforming JavaScript development". InfoWorld.
  6. ↑ Beswick, James (13 July 2022). "Optimizing Node.js dependencies in AWS Lambda | AWS Compute Blog". aws.amazon.com.
  7. ↑ 范文杰 (25 June 2021). "Why is esbuild so fast". SegmentFault.
  8. ↑ Minnick, Chris (5 April 2023). JavaScript All-in-One For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. p. 515. ISBN   978-1-119-90685-8. because it's faster (as a result of being written in the Go language).
  9. ↑ "Angular application build system". angular.dev.
  10. ↑ Krill, Paul (22 September 2021). "Ruby on Rails 7 pousse le no-node pour le bundling JavaScript - Le Monde Informatique". Le Monde informatique (in French). Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  11. ↑ Bouças, Eduardo (2 April 2021). "Modern, faster Netlify Functions: New bundler and JavaScript features". Netlify.


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