esbuild-runner vs esbuild-node-tsc

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esbuild-runner		esbuild-node-tsc
	Project
2	Mentions	2
701	Stars	708
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
9 days ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
TypeScript	Language	JavaScript
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

esbuild-runner

Posts with mentions or reviews of esbuild-runner. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-26.

Testing in typescript.
2 projects | /r/typescript | 26 May 2022

You can then use esbuild-runner to allow you to run tests written in TS. This will also work for any other test runner (mocha, tape, uvu, etc). Jest requires a bit more fiddling, as per usual. An alternative is running tests via TS-node, but it's little a bit slower.
n00b question
2 projects | /r/node | 17 Apr 2021

via ESbuild https://github.com/folke/esbuild-runner

esbuild-node-tsc

Posts with mentions or reviews of esbuild-node-tsc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-10-04.

esbuild-node-tsc: Build your Typescript Node.js projects using blazing fast esbuild
1 project | /r/esbuild | 30 Jan 2021
Self-Destructing Tweets
2 projects | dev.to | 4 Oct 2020

In this tutorial, I wanted to try out esbuild-node-tsc that I saw online last week and DayJS as I haven't yet had a chance to try that one out either!

What are some alternatives?

When comparing esbuild-runner and esbuild-node-tsc you can also consider the following projects:

ts-node - TypeScript execution and REPL for node.js

esno - Alias to `tsx`

mocha-esbuild - Run tests with mocha compiled by esbuild

Standard - 🌟 JavaScript Style Guide, with linter & automatic code fixer

TS-ESNode - Node.JS Loader hook to transform typescript source and files as node loads them TS-ESNode. TS-Node for ESNext & ESModule Node.JS.

esbuild-loader-examples - esbuild-loader examples

tsx - ⚡️ TypeScript Execute: Node.js enhanced to run TypeScript & ESM

standard - 🌟 JavaScript Style Guide, with linter & automatic code fixer [Moved to: https://github.com/standard/standard]

estrella - Lightweight and versatile build tool based on the esbuild compiler

twit - Twitter API Client for node (REST & Streaming API)

bundlejs - An online tool to quickly bundle & minify your projects, while viewing the compressed bundle size, all running locally on your browser. A quick and easy way to bundle, minify, and compress (gzip and brotli) your ts, js, jsx and npm projects all online, with the bundle file size.

react-native-esbuild - Fast bundler and dev server for react-native using esbuild