can we have esbuild builders?

[giniedp]

In angular v14 we can opt in for the experimental esbuild builder.

-"builder": "@angular-devkit/build-angular:browser",
+"builder": "@angular-devkit/build-angular:browser-esbuild",

It would be awesome if we could do the same with custom-webpack.

[just-jeb]

The experimental esbuild builder uses esbuild instead of webpack for transformations, so you can't use custom-webpack with esbuild, these are two separate build chains 🙃.

[giniedp]

i kind of thought it was tied together with esbuild doing the heavy lifting through an esbuild-loader within webpack

[just-jeb]

If I remember correctly that's not the case but I'll double check 👍🏿 .

[arturovt]

That's not currently possible to provide a custom ESBuild builder (e.g., @angular-builders/custom-esbuild), because there's no ability to hook into their API, which is very experimental. I've created an issue in the Angular CLI repository and awaiting them to provide any public surface to the ESBuild builder.

[just-jeb]

angular/angular-cli#24163

[sfinoteffy]

Hello, it looks like the issue for custom esbuild has been solved on Angular side: angular/angular-cli#26011