top | item 28860235 (no title) kabber | 4 years ago Why not minify with esbuild instead by default? discuss order hn newest devongovett|4 years ago esbuild tends to produce larger bundles due to https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/639. Looks like there was recent activity though, so we need to re-test. Anyway, there's a plugin available for now: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@parcel/optimizer-esbuild. We're also excited about the SWC minifier project, which is basically a port of Terser to Rust. kabber|4 years ago This link https://github.com/privatenumber/minification-benchmarks shows swc is still a work in progress.
devongovett|4 years ago esbuild tends to produce larger bundles due to https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/639. Looks like there was recent activity though, so we need to re-test. Anyway, there's a plugin available for now: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@parcel/optimizer-esbuild. We're also excited about the SWC minifier project, which is basically a port of Terser to Rust. kabber|4 years ago This link https://github.com/privatenumber/minification-benchmarks shows swc is still a work in progress.
kabber|4 years ago This link https://github.com/privatenumber/minification-benchmarks shows swc is still a work in progress.
devongovett|4 years ago
kabber|4 years ago