ts-node VS esbuild-runner

Compare ts-node vs esbuild-runner and see what are their differences.

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ts-node esbuild-runner
20 2
12,562 701
0.9% -
5.5 0.0
2 months ago 7 days ago
TypeScript TypeScript
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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ts-node

Posts with mentions or reviews of ts-node. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-11.

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

What are some alternatives?

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

swc-node - Faster ts-node without typecheck

mocha-esbuild - Run tests with mocha compiled by esbuild

esbuild - An extremely fast bundler 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.

swc - Rust-based platform for the Web

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

sucrase - Super-fast alternative to Babel for when you can target modern JS runtimes

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

vike - 🔨 Like Next.js / Nuxt but as do-one-thing-do-it-well Vite plugin.

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

TypeScript-Call-Graph - CLI to generate an interactive graph of functions and calls from your TypeScript files

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.