Esbuild

esbuild
DeveloperEvan Wallace Edit this on Wikidata
Stable release
0.28.2 Edit this on Wikidata / 8 August 2026; 2 months ago (8 August 2026)
Written inGo Edit this on Wikidata
Operating systemCross-platform Edit this on Wikidata
TypeJavaScript bundler
LicenseMIT License Edit this on Wikidata
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata
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esbuild is a free and open-source module bundler and minifier for JavaScript and CSS written by Evan Wallace. Written in Go instead of JavaScript, esbuild claims that at the time it was released, it was "10 to 100 times" faster than other bundlers by using parallelism and shared memory usage. It supports TypeScript, JSX, tree-shaking and is extensible through plugins.

Usage

esbuild was formerly used in Vite, a front-end build-tool and development server (it was removed in version 8), and the Phoenix Framework. It is included as a bundler for Angular since v17, Ruby on Rails since v7, and for Netlify Functions.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Release 0.28.2". 8 August 2026. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
  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. ↑ "Vite 8.0 is out!". vite.dev. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  10. ↑ "Angular application build system". angular.dev.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ Bouças, Eduardo (2 April 2021). "Modern, faster Netlify Functions: New bundler and JavaScript features". Netlify.