What is @esbuild/darwin-x64?
The @esbuild/darwin-x64 npm package is a binary package for the esbuild bundler optimized for macOS on x64 architectures. Esbuild is a fast JavaScript bundler and minifier. It compiles TypeScript and JavaScript into efficient code that can be executed in the browser or on Node.js. This package specifically contains the esbuild binary for macOS (Darwin) systems with x64 architecture, facilitating web development tasks such as bundling, minification, and transpilation.
What are @esbuild/darwin-x64's main functionalities?
JavaScript and TypeScript Bundling
This feature allows you to bundle multiple JavaScript or TypeScript files into a single file. The code sample demonstrates how to bundle an entry file named 'app.js' into an output file named 'out.js'.
require('esbuild').build({
entryPoints: ['app.js'],
bundle: true,
outfile: 'out.js'
}).catch(() => process.exit(1))
Minification
This feature enables the minification of JavaScript files to reduce their size by removing unnecessary characters without changing their functionality. The code sample shows how to minify an entry file 'app.js' into a minified output file 'out.min.js'.
require('esbuild').build({
entryPoints: ['app.js'],
minify: true,
outfile: 'out.min.js'
}).catch(() => process.exit(1))
Transpilation
This feature allows for the transpilation of TypeScript code into JavaScript, making it compatible with older browsers or environments that do not support TypeScript natively. The code sample demonstrates bundling and transpiling a TypeScript file 'app.ts' into a JavaScript file 'out.js'.
require('esbuild').build({
entryPoints: ['app.ts'],
bundle: true,
outfile: 'out.js',
loader: { '.ts': 'ts' }
}).catch(() => process.exit(1))
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0.23.0
This release deliberately contains backwards-incompatible changes. To avoid automatically picking up releases like this, you should either be pinning the exact version of esbuild
in your package.json
file (recommended) or be using a version range syntax that only accepts patch upgrades such as ^0.22.0
or ~0.22.0
. See npm's documentation about semver for more information.
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Revert the recent change to avoid bundling dependencies for node (#3819)
This release reverts the recent change in version 0.22.0 that made --packages=external
the default behavior with --platform=node
. The default is now back to --packages=bundle
.
I've just been made aware that Amazon doesn't pin their dependencies in their "AWS CDK" product, which means that whenever esbuild publishes a new release, many people (potentially everyone?) using their SDK around the world instantly starts using it without Amazon checking that it works first. This change in version 0.22.0 happened to break their SDK. I'm amazed that things haven't broken before this point. This revert attempts to avoid these problems for Amazon's customers. Hopefully Amazon will pin their dependencies in the future.
In addition, this is probably a sign that esbuild is used widely enough that it now needs to switch to a more complicated release model. I may have esbuild use a beta channel model for further development.
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Fix preserving collapsed JSX whitespace (#3818)
When transformed, certain whitespace inside JSX elements is ignored completely if it collapses to an empty string. However, the whitespace should only be ignored if the JSX is being transformed, not if it's being preserved. This release fixes a bug where esbuild was previously incorrectly ignoring collapsed whitespace with --jsx=preserve
. Here is an example:
// Original code
<Foo>
<Bar />
</Foo>
// Old output (with --jsx=preserve)
<Foo><Bar /></Foo>;
// New output (with --jsx=preserve)
<Foo>
<Bar />
</Foo>;