how’s esbuild? I’ve yet to hit something I had in webpack that isn’t a couple line plugin away from being present in esbuild
Esbuild is the only current build-tool that keeps one sane. The serve-mode is excellent and elegant with no brittle constantly breaking hacks like HMR or file watching.
Sadly configuring especially the serve-mode is a bit badly documented, and not usable via CLI flags if one needs plugins.
i noticed, and was very surprised by that. surely esbuild is the "standard" fast bundler these days; everyone knows webpack is slow so doing better, even significantly better, than it isn't a very large claim.