Add esbuild to the list of available bundlers

dmmulroy / create-melange-app

The fastest, friendliest, and most delightful way to get started with OCaml, ReasonML, and Melange, geared towards JavaScript and TypeScript developers

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Add esbuild to the list of available bundlers #107

Closed jchavarri closed 4 months ago

jchavarri commented 5 months ago

Ditto.

esbuild is fast (building cma app takes 58ms), and quite simple to set up. It also works very similarly in watch / dev mode than in regular build mode, which could be beneficial for integrations like the one spec'ed in #83.

I wasn't sure how to test, I just followed the instructions in CONTRIBUTING.md and created a new template. Then made sure the scripts in package.json worked:

jchavarri commented 5 months ago

Just realized the PR is missing a couple of things:

live reload
some integration with readme and such (maybe other templates?), e.g. https://github.com/dmmulroy/create-melange-app/blob/b9e69c7ed6530994efbd091917b228b552650e54/src/templates/base/README.md.tmpl#L132

jchavarri commented 4 months ago

Both issues should be solved in the last two commits. @dmmulroy if everything's looking good to you, do you think we could publish a new version? 🥺