esbuild-runner vs mocha-esbuild

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esbuild-runner		mocha-esbuild
	Project
2	Mentions	2
701	Stars	8
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	2.6
8 days ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
Apache License 2.0	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

mocha-esbuild

Posts with mentions or reviews of mocha-esbuild. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Run tests with mocha and esbuild!
1 project | /r/vuejs | 20 Nov 2021
Run mocha tests with rebuild.
1 project | /r/vuejs | 20 Nov 2021

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

WebdriverIO - Next-gen browser and mobile automation test framework for Node.js

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

root-cause - 🔍 [DEPRECATED] Root Cause is a tool for troubleshooting Puppeteer and Playwright tests. 🔎

jest-codemods - Codemods for migrating to Jest https://github.com/facebook/jest 👾

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.