Feb 12 · 6 min read · esbuild Lightning Fast: Bundle JavaScript 100x Faster The Build That Took 20 Minutes (Now Takes 30 Seconds) Our CI pipeline was killing productivity. Then we switched build tools. Here's what happened. Table of Contents Modern Build Tools 2026 Archi...
Join discussionOct 24, 2025 · 7 min read · TL;DR Our frontend CI was slow, noisy, and doing a lot of useless work. By rethinking what actually needs to run, moving heavy work to the right agents, and swapping some slow tools for faster ones, we turned a multi-stage nightmare into a fast, focu...
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Jan 30, 2025 · 8 min read · A bundler is a tool that takes multiple JavaScript, CSS, and other assets and combines them into a single (or a few) optimised files for efficient loading in a web browser. What Does This Mean? Let’s break this down with an example. Imagine you're bu...
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Jan 25, 2025 · 4 min read · Building a Node.js application with TypeScript can be an excellent choice for modern JavaScript development. It offers type safety, better tooling, and is great for scaling. But the real power comes when you combine TypeScript with a solid bundler, t...
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Aug 30, 2024 · 11 min read · Introduction In the fast-paced world of web development, efficiency and speed are crucial. React, one of the most popular JavaScript libraries for building user interfaces, has empowered developers to create dynamic and responsive web applications. H...
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Jul 29, 2024 · 7 min read · I recently took on a #WeekendBuild challenge idea to create an autocomplete/autosuggestions input package, nicanor-autocomplete. Of course, it seems like a stupid idea, but the end game was learning and building a package-ready product. In the proces...
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Apr 29, 2024 · 2 min read · Ok. I did it. Back to (almost) plain old regular css for building my last project. You would think that SASS would be absolutely necessary to have a pleasant DX, but as it turns out, I don't think I need it anymore. I don't know about you, but as far...
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Mar 4, 2024 · 2 min read · Since the release of Angular 17, now we have three different builders to choose from when building our applications. These builders are based on Webpack, EsBuild, and serve the purpose of Server-Side Rendering (SSR). In this article, we will explore ...
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Jan 2, 2024 · 12 min read · This is a guide for setting up the frontend of a web application that can import libraries from npm: the node package manager. The article's title mentions React, but this is done for the purpose of helping people find this guide (aka "SEO"). Althoug...
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Oct 17, 2023 · 3 min read · UI development in web applications has seen significant advancements in recent years, and the Rails framework has embraced these changes with each new release. Rails 7 introduces the ESBuild bundler, which brings a range of benefits to UI development...
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