Call all plugins onResolve instead of using only the first one

[remorses]

Currently only the first plugin onResolve result will be used, this means there is no way to override a previous plugin result

Calling all plugins allows you to override previous plugins

[Jarred-Sumner]

I'd be worried about performance implications

One way to deal with that is by default plugins don't allow other plugins. In the object the plugin returns, the plugin could do something like:

// ... plugin code
     return { contents: code, runOtherPlugins: true}
// ... rest of plugin code

And then, if the plugin doesn't set runOtherPlugins: true or if you want to force it to run other plugins, on the config object for ESBuild, maybe you could still override that, something like:

build({
   // ...esbuild config

   plugins: [
    [plugin, {runOtherPlugins: true}]
   ],
})

This assumes you usually don't want plugins to run other plugins, which is probably the case for every file type except JavaScript/TypeScript

[remorses]

@Jarred-Sumner i think there would be no performance degradation, a plugin can early return a null value to skip itself from running

[xhebox]

I met the exact same needs as you, @remorses . But your PR only modifies the TS part for esbuild. I believe there is another GO part: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/blob/master/internal/bundler/bundler.go#L587-L640.

And I would argue that the api of onResolve and onLoad may should be changed to act more like middlewares, and to be more intuitive. @evanw Here is my draft proposal on a more middleware-like plugin system, hope it can be a good reference:

EDIT: Actually, I can write a middleware-like plugin system that accepts middleware-like plugin, as a esbuild plugin, if the proposal is not acceptable. I guess that is what the author originally thought (pluginName), a plugin for plugins.

1. To repeatedly call plugins, basically it will be a loop like

for(;plugins.some(p => p.canApply());)
  p.apply();

So better no special treat for file systems, like what the comment in https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/546#issuecomment-730121484. My point is to make entrypoint same as import paths. A simpler and consistent api would make the loop more easier to implement.

2. OnResolve api may like:

// the first argument maybe a simple path filter REGEXP
// or a function that can judge if we should try to resolve
onResolve(string | (OnResolveArgs) => boolean, (onResolveArgs) => onResolveResult)

// has the previous resolve result, and the importer
interface OnResolveArgs extends onResolveResult {
  importer?: onResolveResult;
}

interface OnResolveResult {
  path?: string;
  external?: boolean;
  errors?: Message[];
  warnings?: Message[];
  namespace?: string; // or 'the message from the previous plugin'
  // maybe other type than string, if we want more power context sharing
}

3. onLoad will be similar except for loader field. I would remove the loader field, and have some builtin namespaces like esbuild-js-loader as a hint to pass the control to esbuild loader, esbuild-stop to terminate the loop, or some other custom hints to continue transform.

// a namespace filter REGEXP string, or full custom filter function
onLoad(string | (OnLoadResult) => boolean, (OnLoadResult) => OnLoadResult)

interface OnLoadResult {
  contents?: string | Uint8Array;
  errors?: Message[];
  warnings?: Message[];
  namespace?: string;
}

4. By the means of no special treatment for files, plugins can be applied to transform api for better integration.