[imjared]

I've been trying to figure out how to build JS projects with the evolving tools (grunt => gulp => webpack => parcel => back to webpack) for years. I stumbled on esbuild and thought why not. Within about 15 minutes, I had solved pretty much all our build issues. Admittedly, our use case was simple-- we needed to transpile React-flavored TS to a npm package. In about 6 lines of code, I had a working bundle. There were no .esbuildrc or esbuild.config.js files, no babel dependencies, and no order of build operations to consider. The tool just worked and it was screaming fast. My first impression was that it _didn't_ work because the process closed in my terminal so quickly.

After my first experiment with it, I rewrote our hundreds of lines Cloud Functions deploy script in about 15 lines (most of which is configuration options on the `build()` method).

I'm curious to explore the tool more. Kudos and thanks to the author for an unbelievably useful contribution.

[oliyoung]

> My first impression was that it _didn't_ work because the process closed in my terminal so quickly.

We switched to an esbuild/vite/rollup stack mid year and had the same experience, it's black magic compared to web pack et al