esbuild is so awesome... my steps towards web dev sanity are
1. Switch everything to esbuild, remove 10k dependency security nightmare, bloatfest and slugishness of pretty much every other node based build system / bundler.
2. Switch to deno.
Haven't quite got to deno yet, but #1 was liberating. esbuild also has some preliminary deno support, but not sure how stable it is.
The main thing I like about esbuild is that I feel like I wont ever have to "migrate" build system again (and I have to deal with an unusually high number of repos so this is a big deal), not much in my repos have anything esbuild specific, migrating was more a matter of removing build system specific smells from repos, it's all just a js and css bundle now. i.e there could be something better than esbuild in the future, and switching to that should in theory be effortless. This has never been true for all of the NPM build systems prior, (I was there at the beginning with grunt).
Not OP, but in paper deno offers a lot of things out of the box
> - Provides web platform functionality and adopts web platform standards.
> - Supports TypeScript out of the box.
> - Has built-in development tooling like a dependency inspector (deno info) and a code formatter (deno fmt).
Also they have a build-in testing library, so for me is mostly get rid of the tooling as dependency, the only thing that is missing is a frontend bundler (I think they have one, but intended to use for the backend only), but there are swc and rebuild that hopefully will catch the feature parity with webpack and friends.
1. Switch everything to esbuild, remove 10k dependency security nightmare, bloatfest and slugishness of pretty much every other node based build system / bundler.
2. Switch to deno.
Haven't quite got to deno yet, but #1 was liberating. esbuild also has some preliminary deno support, but not sure how stable it is.
The main thing I like about esbuild is that I feel like I wont ever have to "migrate" build system again (and I have to deal with an unusually high number of repos so this is a big deal), not much in my repos have anything esbuild specific, migrating was more a matter of removing build system specific smells from repos, it's all just a js and css bundle now. i.e there could be something better than esbuild in the future, and switching to that should in theory be effortless. This has never been true for all of the NPM build systems prior, (I was there at the beginning with grunt).