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by fabian2k 1710 days ago
I had ignored this space for a while as I didn't see any need to fiddle with it. But there does seem to be quite a lot of movement now on Webpack alternatives. The speed improvements do look very interesting, though I'm not so sure how much of the delays I'm seeing with Webpack/Create React App are from the Typescript checking. I mean Typescript is awesome, but it's also not all that fast in building and type checking.

Vite seems to be one of the more interesting CRA alternatives. Though it uses esbuild only for development, and Rollup for production builds. It'll be interesting to see how this develops, and if the fast bundlers keep catching up in terms of features without getting slower.

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I think vite is using esbuild only for TS transpiling in development and esbuild & rollup for production.