Using different bundler with Angular | Angular Community | Page 1

twin crane Sep 15, 2022, 12:07 PM

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Is it possible to use a different bundler in Angular than webpack?

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I'm thinking specifically about esbuild (https://esbuild.github.io/)

esbuild - An extremely fast JavaScript bundler

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But it seems like the latest version is using webpack https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41483399/angular-cli-or-webpack and people seem quite pleased about it...

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Angular-cli or Webpack

I used angular-cli in our one project. Now, we came to know about webpack. As per my research, webpack is faster than angular-cli and it also removes unused code. I don't know about drawbacks.
I just

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Given there's a special package @ngtools/webpack for Angular CLI I don't think there might be an easy way to just swap bundlers. But maybe?

cunning condor Sep 15, 2022, 12:24 PM

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I mean, there is this so something is possible: https://dev.to/marcinwosinek/how-to-build-minimal-angular-12-app-with-esbuild-54cc

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twin crane Sep 15, 2022, 1:39 PM

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That'd be good actually! But, there's one caveat... esbuild doesn't work with .html...

fast cloak Sep 15, 2022, 2:57 PM

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at ng conf they talked about experiments they were doing with a different tool for the build process. I think the new one didn't use webpack. but I don't believe that alternative is publicly available yet.

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