esbuild-runner vs estrella

esbuild-runner

⚡️ Super-fast on-the-fly transpilation of modern JS, TypeScript and JSX using esbuild (by folke)

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estrella

Lightweight and versatile build tool based on the esbuild compiler (by rsms)

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esbuild-runner		estrella
	Project
2	Mentions	1
701	Stars	1,093
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
8 days ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
Apache License 2.0	License	ISC License

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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

estrella

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Estrella: Lightweight and versatile build tool based on the esbuild compiler
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jul 2021

What are some alternatives?

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

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

esbuild-plugin-prismjs - A PrismJS plugin for esbuild. Bundle the language and plugins set in the configuration at build time. The same options as babel-plugin-prismjs are available.

mocha-esbuild - Run tests with mocha compiled by esbuild

swc - Rust-based platform for the Web

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.

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

esbuild-loader - Webpack loader for esbuild: Speed up your build ⚡️

esbuild-node-tsc - Build your Typescript Node.js projects using blazing fast esbuild

minification-benchmarks - 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃 JS minification benchmarks: babel-minify, esbuild, terser, uglify-js, swc, google closure compiler, tdewolff/minify

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.

avro-to-typescript - Compile Apache Avro schema files to TypeScript classes