sourcegraph/cmd/server
Quinn Slack de613e92b6
use esbuild for client/web builds (#57365)
Use [esbuild](https://esbuild.github.io/) instead of Webpack for builds of `client/web`, for faster builds (dev and prod) and greater dev-prod parity. This PR completely removes all use of Webpack in this repository.

`client/web` is the last build target that still uses Webpack; all others have been recently migrated to esbuild. Most devs here have been using esbuild for local dev of `client/web` for the last 6-12 months anyway. The change here is that now our production builds will be built by esbuild.

All sg commands, integration/e2e tests, etc., continue to work as-is. The bundlesize report will take a while to stabilize because the new build products use different filenames.

## Benchmarks

Running `pnpm run generate && time pnpm -C client/web run task:gulp webBuild` and taking the `time` output from the last command:

- Webpack: 62.5s
- esbuild: 6.7s

Note: This understates esbuild's victory for 2 reasons: (1) because esbuild is building both the main and embed entrypoints, whereas Webpack only builds the main entrypoint in this benchmark) and (2) because a lot of it is in the fixed startup time of `gulp`; esbuild incremental rebuilds during local dev only take ~1s.

## Notes

We no longer use Babel to produce web builds (we use esbuild), so we don't need any Babel plugins that optimize the output or improve browser compatibility. Right now, Babel is only used by Jest (for tests) and by Bazel as an intermediate step.
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image_tests Bump p4-fusion to latest version in gitserver (#57754) 2023-10-20 18:14:42 +02:00
internal Housekeeping: fix some code smells in the Go code (#49995) 2023-03-28 20:31:32 +09:00
rootfs Switch to OCI/Wolfi based image (#52693) 2023-06-02 12:12:52 +02:00
shared logger: update log lib and remove use of description (#57690) 2023-10-18 17:29:08 +02:00
BUILD.bazel use esbuild for client/web builds (#57365) 2023-10-23 10:59:06 -07:00
image_test.yaml Bump p4-fusion to latest version in gitserver (#57754) 2023-10-20 18:14:42 +02:00
macro.bzl Switch to OCI/Wolfi based image (#52693) 2023-06-02 12:12:52 +02:00
main.go use esbuild for client/web builds (#57365) 2023-10-23 10:59:06 -07:00
postgres_exporter.yaml Switch to OCI/Wolfi based image (#52693) 2023-06-02 12:12:52 +02:00