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by kabber 1705 days ago
Why not minify with esbuild instead by default?
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devongovett 1705 days ago
esbuild tends to produce larger bundles due to https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/639. Looks like there was recent activity though, so we need to re-test. Anyway, there's a plugin available for now: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@parcel/optimizer-esbuild. We're also excited about the SWC minifier project, which is basically a port of Terser to Rust.
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kabber 1705 days ago
This link https://github.com/privatenumber/minification-benchmarks shows swc is still a work in progress.
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