evanw/esbuild
- Total stars
- 40,076
- Today · UTC
- +0since 10:58 UTC
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About the project
A fast web bundler written in Go that handles JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX and CSS with tree shaking, minification, source maps, watch mode and plugins. It speeds up frontend builds without relying on a cache.
Useful for
- Bundle a TypeScript project via the esbuild CLI without a config file
- Run a local dev server in watch mode to rebuild on file changes
- Minify CSS and JS with source maps for production output
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 14, 2026, 12:04 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-14 (UTC), 10:58–11:59: 40077 → 40076 stars (-1). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +2 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- GitHub Trending Go today: #14, +6 stars.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @alexgorbatchev (708 followers).
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 23. +130% versus the preceding 7 days.
Daily measurements · UTC
- October 7, 2026
- 2
- October 8, 2026
- 1
- October 9, 2026
- 0
- October 10, 2026
- 6
- October 11, 2026
- 3
- October 12, 2026
- 4
- October 13, 2026
- 7
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 7 · September 14, 2026. Days with data: 30.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 14, 2026, 12:04 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
Three GitHub discoveries in each edition
What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.
Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 40,076
- Today
- +0 stars measured 2026-10-14, 10:58–11:59 UTC, ≈ 2 by evening
- Forks
- 1,357
- Issues and pull requests
- 4,479
- Watchers
- 269
- Language
- Go
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- v0.28.2 · August 8, 2026
- Created
- June 14, 2016
- Last push
- August 9, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- October 14, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #14, +6 stars
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