Add esbuild support

[Skyler-Wu]

💬 Questions and Help

Hi guys, I noticed in the few past years you don't have plan to add esbuild support, in this issue, now just wanna double check that you still have no plans for esbuild support, right?

[theKashey]

No plans yet.

But the "integration" is only around getting required stats from the build, so we can connect the dots. Basically create an analog of webpack-plugin for esbuild/vite/you-name-it and keep the rest.

[Skyler-Wu]

Thanks first, and if I wanna use esbuild-loader + webpack + loadable, without @loadable/babel-plugin, you have some suggestions?

[theKashey]

Sorry, it would not work. Babel is the most crucial part of instrumentation and should still happen.
As a solution you can create a custom loader that will quickly scan source file and pick the right loader to use:

• if there is "@loadable/component" seen in the file, use babel-loader
• use esbuild-loader in any other case

Just a few files of the whole project require extra functionality from babel-plugin, while all others do not. By mixing loaders you can combine speed of esbuild with power of babel.

There is a separate solution a little easier to implement - create a "conditional loader" and place it before esbuild:

• it will apply loadable transformation, but not the following transpilation
• esbuild will handle the rest