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by emadda 1033 days ago
I often use vanilla esbuild installed via NPM.

I feel like this build step would still work in 5 to 10 years:

- esbuild is compiled into a single binary for each target system so has minimal dependencies.

- NPM makes the version immutable, and will download the same binary version on ‘npm install’.

- I will use .tsx as my extension but use only pure JS, this gets me IDE suggestions without writing TS types, which works well for small projects.

Compared to webpack, esbuild seems unbreakable.