[oefrha]

That’s not the biggest problem of esbuild. Esbuild has poor support for code splitting (it’s the first priority on their roadmap[1]) and limited plugin interface which makes it a poor choice for complex projects. These are the reasons that Vite for instance can’t use esbuild for production builds.

While I haven’t tried Mako, it seems to have support for advanced code splitting[2]. No idea how powerful its plugin system is.

[1] https://esbuild.github.io/faq/#upcoming-roadmap

[2] https://makojs.dev/docs/features#code-splitting

[kurtextrem]

Also, the vite team in collab with a few others is building https://rolldown.rs/, to replace esbuild and rollup in vite. It's goal is to be faster than esbuild, with extended chunking options and so on.