Stop Wasting Time (waiting on build tools)
summary
Claim: switching bundlers cuts feedback loops from many seconds to milliseconds. A large Node service moved to esbuild boots the dev server and runs reloads and unit tests in under a second. A 25,000-line React app moved from webpack to Vite shows ~200 ms server start and ~100 ms HMR. Modern native-compiled tools like swc and esbuild deliver an order-of-magnitude speedup, preserving flow and reducing costly context switches.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:48Fast feedback loops matter
- 1:27State of Developer response times
- 1:54Our build tools are too slow
- 2:37New generation of build tools
- 2:49Fast bundling
- 3:11Node.js example
- 3:36Fast web development
- 3:58React Example
- 4:24Takeaways
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