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by connor4312 1921 days ago
> Webpack itself however does basically nothing

This is not the case. I love esbuild and hope to see it go far, but Webpack does out of the box most of what esbuild (today) does as well, with the notable exception of TypeScript /jsx transpilation. For more advanced scenarios, like dealing with css modules, you do need plugins -- but esbuild doesn't support most of these scenarios today at all.

It's like saying VS Code does nothing: you probably want extensions to help you out and let you do more complex things more easily, but it doesn't "do nothing" out of the box.