Esbuild is the new cool kid in the bundler world.
It is super fast since its written in Go and comes with a lot of builtin features for modern frontend development.
So i wanted to try it myself and migrated a former gulp build to esbuild.
But as it showed the gulp build was not so modern, as it was just Sass and Javascript minification. No ES6, No React, no JSX with inline styles.
So Esbuild was not working out of the box but needed some extra config and the Sass plugin.
npm i -d esbuild esbuild-plugin-sass
Also I had to rewrite the Javascript to use ES6 modules, but this was fortunatly easy.
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