esbuild

[j4k0xb]

abracadabra/docs/adr/0011-use-babel-jest-instead-of-ts-jest.md

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The recommended solution was to use a compiler that would not care about types, like Babel, SWC (in Rust), or ESBuild (in Go). But we got issues with SWC and ESBuild, they throw errors when trying to compile the project. We feel they are not mature enough yet to be used for this project.

Imo esbuild is now mature enough to be considered: Both node and web extension bundles work, there are source maps and a bundle size analyzer.
It results in a much more pleasant development experience when pressing F5: 0.6s build time instead of 73s.
Are you interested in a PR? https://github.com/j4k0xb/abracadabra/tree/esbuild

Other optimization ideas:

abracadabra/package.json

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"pretest:contract": "tsc -p ./",

currently takes 26s. It could also use esbuild or explore if running vitest directly on the source files is faster (if it isn't too much work)

[nicoespeon]

@j4k0xb that sounds super promising and interesting. I will have some time available to work on Abracadabra around Christmas, so feel free to open a PR. Always happy to optimize the dev or user experience for the extension 😄

[nicoespeon]

Implemented with #960, thank you again!