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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon abhijithvijayan

Migration to ESBuild from Babel

Open id3vz opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

I'm using the React + TypeScript branch and using React in ContentScript, When I make any change in the react files it takes about 40 seconds until I can see the change in the browser and the page reloaded. How to make it faster as 40 seconds is too much?

id3vz avatar Aug 13 '21 15:08 id3vz

It doesnt really take 40seconds on my machine.

But I will consider migrating to esbuild from babel.

Will keep this issue open for now.

abhijithvijayan avatar Aug 13 '21 15:08 abhijithvijayan

This is do-able but the problem could be with support for old browsers(as I am not sure if ESBuild is somewhat flexible to Babel's browser version specific bundles) So this could mean dropping support for older browsers.

Currently the manifest v3 upgrade might need to drop support for old browsers ( Chrome < 88 ). If that is the case, I will surely consider doing this too. For now I think Keeping Babel is fine. But if anyone needs it be be switched with Esbuild, there is a webpack loader for that, feel free to use it.

abhijithvijayan avatar Dec 02 '21 20:12 abhijithvijayan