> Additionally, vite-plugin-svelte pulls in esbuild, "an extremely fast JavaScript bundler" written in go, as a dependency. I couldn't find exactly where it was

> Additionally, vite-plugin-svelte pulls in esbuild, "an extremely fast JavaScript bundler" written in go, as a dependency. I couldn't find exactly where it was used in the code or what it was doing, but it's what shows up in my terminal tab when I run yarn dev so it must be running down there somewhere. And then: > Even after a good bit of docs searching and code diving, I really couldn't figure out what library was actually performing that transpilation or how to configure it. I smiled reading that and then this. Here you go, it's esbuild, which replaces babel. :-) It was nice to follow the exploration while reading this article. As someone who is a future-ex React developer who uses Svelte in a personal project, I fully agree with the author on how Svelte feels.