@angular/build:library builder?

Command

build

Description

The new @angular/build package was a great little surprise included in the v18 release! 🚀

As of today, the @angular/build package is offering workspaces that are only using the new application builder a great opportunity to strip down a lot of dependencies 👍 Workspaces that include libraries however can unfortunately not yet benefit here as the package is currently missing a library builder - one is still required to install the @angular-devkit/build-angular package for that purpose.

That's why I was wondering whether there are any plans on providing a library builder with the new @angular/build package?

Also, will you give packaging libraries with esbuild another shot? (as https://github.com/ng-packagr/ng-packagr/commit/9c238273c9057108744c9f9ef8c7d9e62225c0f1 has been reverted as it seems)

Describe the solution you'd like

Provide a library builder with the @angular/build package (which ideally would also be based on esbuild in order to keep the dependency footprint small)

Describe alternatives you've considered

There are no alternatives. As mentioned above, one is still required to use the @angular-devkit/build-angular:ng-packagr builder in workspaces that include libraries.

angular / angular-cli