How and why do we bundle zx?

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  1. esbuild

    An extremely fast bundler for the web

    At first we wanted to just get rid of all the helper utilities. Keep only the kernel, but this would mean a loss of backward compatibility. We needed some efficient code processing instead with recomposition and tree-shaking. We needed a bundler. But which one? Our testing approach relies on targets, not sources. We rebuilt the project frequently, speed was critical requirement. In essence, we chose a solution from a couple of among all available alternatives: esbuild and parcel. Esbuild won. Specifically in our case, it proved to be more productive and customizable.

  2. SurveyJS

    JavaScript Form Builder with No-Code UI & Built-In JSON Schema Editor. Add the SurveyJS white-label form builder to your JavaScript app (React/Angular/Vue3). Build complex JSON forms without coding. Fully customizable, works with any backend, perfect for data-heavy apps. Learn more.

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  3. zx

    A tool for writing better scripts

    When zx first appeared, it was a tiny esm script that just proposed a new idea for how child_process.spawn API could be enhanced with string template literals.

  4. parcel

    The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀

    At first we wanted to just get rid of all the helper utilities. Keep only the kernel, but this would mean a loss of backward compatibility. We needed some efficient code processing instead with recomposition and tree-shaking. We needed a bundler. But which one? Our testing approach relies on targets, not sources. We rebuilt the project frequently, speed was critical requirement. In essence, we chose a solution from a couple of among all available alternatives: esbuild and parcel. Esbuild won. Specifically in our case, it proved to be more productive and customizable.

  5. misc

    Experiment on maintaining a multi-project monorepository (by antongolub)

    Esbuild provides code-splitting with dynamic imports to reuse common code chunks. But not is static form. The manual chunks API is missing. esbuild-plugin-entry-chunks

  6. awesome-tagged-templates

    A list of libraries and learning resources for ES2015 tagged template literals

    When zx first appeared, it was a tiny esm script that just proposed a new idea for how child_process.spawn API could be enhanced with string template literals.

  7. TypeScript

    TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

    While we were fighting against the modules, we forgot one small detail - their built-in typings. Esbuild can't do this at all yet. Unbelievable, but the tsc, native TS compiler, also does not provide a typings concat feature. Got around this problem: we've introduced [a utility to combine typings](tsc-dts-fix of zx own code, and applied some monkey patches for external libdefs squashed via dts-bundle-generator.

  8. dts-bundle-generator

    A tool to generate a single bundle of dts with types tree-shaking

    While we were fighting against the modules, we forgot one small detail - their built-in typings. Esbuild can't do this at all yet. Unbelievable, but the tsc, native TS compiler, also does not provide a typings concat feature. Got around this problem: we've introduced [a utility to combine typings](tsc-dts-fix of zx own code, and applied some monkey patches for external libdefs squashed via dts-bundle-generator.

  9. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  10. zxLICENSE

    Discontinued [GET https://api.github.com/repos/google/zxLICENSE: 404 - Not Found // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#get-a-repository]

    Apache-2.0

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