wmr VS esbuild-loader

wmr for near-instant builds & native TS support

Preferred tech stack is always something I choose for the job at hand. That might just be a few rollup plugins + a tool like WMR or Vite, but it can be also be quite complex and custom build system too. It depends.

While the development process is evolving for developers, there’s a need by many developers to have an all-in-one development tool that will make web application development faster and easier. WMR gives developers the added feature and advantage of building web applications based on the all-in-one development tool.

wmr does not have error overlay / SVGR support

It did not take a lot of time to choose the tool. Currently, there are 3 major bundlers powered by ESM - vite, snowpack, and wmr. From the first glance - all of them look promising and I did not care about their internals as long as I don't need to touch them.

WMR could be another option if you haven’t already seen it.

wmr is an all-in-one development tool for modern web apps. Since it leverages ESM modules, it only requires an HTML files with

Thanks! I'll watch this today on lunch break. :) To be frank, I'm not even a Vue user, but Vite looks truly awesome. I love that popular framework authors are taking the time to make their build tools framework-agnostic (also see, wmr by the Preact guys).

i see. there are a loaders like https://github.com/privatenumber/esbuild-loader that works with webpack but i haven't given it a try yet.

you can use it with webpack didn't try it myself

If you are a webpack user and have heard about esbuild speed, you may start questioning your js-bundler choices. Luckily, you don't have to drop your hand-crafted webpack config just now. Thanks to esbuild-loader, you can get part of the speed improvement without doing a whole migration.

esbuild-loader (secret sauce!) fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin (helps us with typechecking) nodemon-webpack-plugin (We can also use webpack-dev-server)

For people already on webpack, there's esbuild-loader (https://github.com/privatenumber/esbuild-loader)

esbuild is a JS and TS bundler that promises ultra-fast build times. We use webpack, and there is support to leverage esbuild with esbuild-loader.

The first thing I did was replace babel-loader and Terser (minification tool) with esbuild-loader. This made our JS compile around 12 times faster, it went down to 1.4 seconds. It was a good start.

In fact, the create-react-app-esbuild is only an encapsulation of esbuild-loader.

I just started using this: privatenumber/esbuild-loader: ⚡️ Speed up your Webpack build with esbuild (github.com)

Both would be good to file. I’m happy to investigate myself if you don’t have the time.

One thing to be aware of is that some other tools that integrate esbuild do so incorrectly. For example, the 3rd-party integration of esbuild into Webpack mis-configures esbuild in a way that causes issues with JSX: https://github.com/privatenumber/esbuild-loader/pull/107. This isn’t a problem with esbuild itself.