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by nicoburns 1949 days ago
> I’ve had enough trouble with ESBuild and SWC which don’t even warn about incompatibilities that I’m wary.

We're just in process of integrating ESBuild for stripping TypeScript types at work. I'd be interested to hear more about these incompatibilities you've encountered.
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eyelidlessness 1949 days ago
In one case it complained about the opening brace of a props spread on a JSX expression. In another case it complained about an unexpected question token with no line number so I couldn’t find what the issue was. In both cases they were perfectly valid TypeScript according to tsc and VSCode. For that usage I just gave up. It’s working well for me in other projects/contexts though.
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constexpr 1949 days ago
It would be great if you could file these as bugs against esbuild! Sounds like these should be easy to fix.
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eyelidlessness 1949 days ago
It would be great and in the one case I will when I have space to come back to it, since I could isolate it. In the other case idk what to file other than “open source project I contribute to has a file with a question mark that your compiler doesn’t like”.
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constexpr 1949 days ago
Both would be good to file. I’m happy to investigate myself if you don’t have the time.

One thing to be aware of is that some other tools that integrate esbuild do so incorrectly. For example, the 3rd-party integration of esbuild into Webpack mis-configures esbuild in a way that causes issues with JSX: https://github.com/privatenumber/esbuild-loader/pull/107. This isn’t a problem with esbuild itself.

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