# evanw/esbuild

> 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.

- Magnitude: 1.3 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 40,076 total · +0 stars measured 2026-10-14, 10:58–11:59 UTC, ≈ 2 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Go · License: MIT · Created: 2016-06-14 · Last push: 2026-08-09
- GitHub: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild · Homepage: https://esbuild.github.io/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/evanw/esbuild

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 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).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,357
- Issues and pull requests: 4,479
- Watchers: 269
- Average over the last week: 3 per day
- Usual pace: 2 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v0.28.2 (2026-08-08)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-15 … 2026-10-14: 1, 0, 3, 4, 3, 3, 3, 1, 0, 4, 3, 3, 1, 3, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 3, 3, 0, 2, 1, 0, 6, 3, 4, 7, 0

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending Go today: #14, +6 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-14 12:04 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.