exclude paths from external[]

[its-dibo]

I want to do something like this...

 external: [
   './path/*',
   '!./path/bundle-this/*'
]

[dalafik]

I second that. It would be very helpful

[donmccurdy]

Possibly equivalent to:

• https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/3215

I'd be very interested in this feature as well. A project may have many dependencies. When we need to externalize only a small subset of those — as is likely to be true for a library published to npm — having to list every dependency except the one intended is fairly challenging to maintain safely, particularly in a monorepo.

[atrofimov-sc]

+1 to this. For my usecase, I don't want to bundle anything, and I want to let the installation happen in the cloud. However there are some private packages that are internal to my org that I do want to publish (but only them).

So ideally I want either:

external: [
 '*',
 '!@private/foo',
]

or for the external field to accept a function where i can determine the desired behavior myself.

[evanw]

for the external field to accept a function where i can determine the desired behavior myself

There is already a way to do this for yourself: https://esbuild.github.io/plugins/#on-resolve

[atrofimov-sc]

for the external field to accept a function where i can determine the desired behavior myself

There is already a way to do this for yourself: https://esbuild.github.io/plugins/#on-resolve

That's neat. Would it be possible to add this as a note in the external api section in the docs for the next guy?