Why Is Esbuild Fast?

Re:Why Is Esbuild Fast? by jarym on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:23AM (#26155457)

Esbuild is certainly fast but I could never figure out how to get it to preserve some symbols during minification (for when I want to expose some class methods or properties publicly to external consumers)

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Re:Why Is Esbuild Fast? by vijaybritto on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @12:27PM (#26156315)

Open an issue if you haven't. He is very responsive and thoughtful considering he is the cofounder of Figma a company which is rapidly growing.

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Re:Why Is Esbuild Fast? by qvq on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @05:56AM (#26165021)

I wonder if window['exposedObject'] = {... would work.

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Re:Why Is Esbuild Fast? by rizky05 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @02:34PM (#26157791)

esbuild has keepNames options to preserve that

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Re:Why Is Esbuild Fast? by roryokane on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @08:13PM (#26174207)

Indeed. The relevant documentation: https://esbuild.github.io/api/#keep-names

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