[taitems]

I was put onto the incredibly fast esbuild[1] by a colleague and have used it here and there for open source packages. I'd been keen to understand which release of Parcel v2 they benchmarked against as they claim 0.37s to 39.28s on their home page?

[1] https://esbuild.github.io/

[devongovett]

I commented elsewhere in this thread but that benchmark is really measuring the performance of Terser, which is used by all of the other tools listed there. Parcel has improved somewhat since that benchmark was last updated but until terser is replaced there’s no competition.

[FinalBriefing]

Those are some really impressive numbers.

I was really impressed with the speed of Vite, which uses Rollup under the hood. I never had any real complains about Webpack's speed until I tried Vite out. In my experience with Vue apps, the difference between Vite (Rollup) and Webpack was much greater than esbuild's data shows.

[Xevi]

Vite only uses Rollup for the production build step. During development it uses ESBuild for pre-bundling, and then serves everything as native ESM, that's why it's so fast. They might get rid of Rollup in the future if ESBuild gains more features.

[FinalBriefing]

oh, cool! I didn't realize that. Then yea, I am very impressed by esbuild's performance.

[akvadrako]

Vite uses esbuild too.

https://vitejs.dev/guide/features.html#jsx