mkdist
Lightweight file-to-file transformer
✅ Copies all assets
✅ Supports Vue Single File Components
✅ Fast and minimal transform by esbuild
✅ .d.ts generation for .ts, .js and .vue files
✅ Support postcss (autoprefixer, cssnano and postcss-nested enabled out of the box!)
❓ Why?
Bundling libraries isn't always the best choice:
- We lose original file structure
- We lose modern syntax by transpiling in bundle
- We lose critical-css by extracting css to a global dist (vue)
- Dependencies will be always imported from bundle even if not used (a second bundling step might fix this but it usually won't happen in development and for dependencies with side-effects)
While there are tools like tsc and @babel/cli, they mostly focus on transpiling rather than keeping source level quality. Also they lack support for handling custom extensions like .vue and copying assets.
🚀 Usage
npx mkdist [rootDir] [--src=src] [--dist=dist] [--pattern=glob [--pattern=more-glob]] [--format=cjs|esm] [-d|--declaration] [--ext=mjs|js|ts]