[imjasonmiller]

I'm using Hugo, but was looking at Zola earlier today.

It's great to see that they're looking to support next-generation image formats. They're not in Hugo, as a requirement seems to be that dependencies are all fully written in Go, no use of bindings. It's a sensible decision from a maintenance perspective, but still unfortunate.

What Hugo does have, and for which I couldn't find an alternative for in Zola, is something akin to `esbuild` that can build and bundle JavaScript and TypeScript. Is there some way to do this with Zola or does one need to setup a separate build step for that with e.g. `swc`?

[Keats]

> What Hugo does have, and for which I couldn't find an alternative for in Zola, is something akin to `esbuild` that can build and bundle JavaScript and TypeScript. Is there some way to do this with Zola or does one need to setup a separate build step for that with e.g. `swc`?

Not right no. My issue with that is usually people that want a JS build system will want webpack, loaders and other JS dependencies to also work. You end up just executing webpack command from the SSG while the user could just run it themselves, without a layer.

[imjasonmiller]

Ah, a familiar name! Thank you for taking the time to answer. I'll look into it, maybe I can get it to work.