Move from terser to esbuild

[baseplate-admin]

What pain point are you perceiving?.
it seems that marked is using terser for bundling

marked/rollup.config.js

Line 2 in de85e70

import terser from '@rollup/plugin-terser';

marked/rollup.config.js

Line 44 in de85e70

plugins: [terser()]

But terser is slower ( about 10x ) than esbuild.

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be better if marked moved to esbuild + rollup ( or maybe vite ) for it's bundling process.

Rollup has : rollup-plugin-esbuild

Vite natively supports esbuild

[UziTech]

I don't feel like our build times are a problem. They are only a couple seconds currently. I went with terser because the plugin is developed by rollup and more likely to continue being supported than a plugin created by a lone developer.

I'm ok with either. It should be easy to switch in the future if needed.

[baseplate-admin]

I don't feel like our build times are a problem. They are only a couple seconds currently.

True, but esbuild gets more attention than terser because vite (and a lot of major frameworks) are using esbuild.

I went with terser because the plugin is developed by rollup and more likely to continue being supported than a plugin created by a lone developer.

Then why not switch to vite in library mode?

[UziTech]

I've never used vite, but I'm all for learning new things. Are you talking about replacing our docs with vite?

[baseplate-admin]

I've never used vite, but I'm all for learning new things

That's something i rarely see. Most of the people are impervious to change.

Are you talking about replacing our docs with vite?

I was talking about replacing rollup with vite

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If you want i can try to send a PR, replacing rollup with vite

[UziTech]

Sure, it looks like vite uses rollup anyways so I don't see the point in adding a new layer. But if you create a PR we can see what the benefits are.

[UziTech]

If it can reduces the size of the npm package I think it would be worth it. The gzip size grew dramatically after switching to typescript. Mainly because we now have to include source maps for each file.

[bent10]

@UziTech If you're interested in migrating to Vite, I've reproduced the source code for Marked (without making any edits), and it works like a charm! Feel free to check out this repository.