Article originally published here : https://alsohelp.com/blog/rollup-vs-esbuild-for-rails

Rollup and esbuild are two ways to produce an production-optimized JavaScript file, thanks to jsbundling-rails.

ESBuild vs Rollup locally

You can create a new Rails application, with rollup for handling JS assets, with

rails new myapp --database = postgresql -j = rollup -c = tailwind

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postgresql is necessary if you want to try the final result in production.

For esbuild, try

rails new myapp --database = postgresql -j = esbuild -c = tailwind

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Difference between ESBuild and Rollup locally

Both are very transparent IMHO. I wrote several articles about the best way to handle JS with Rails some years ago, now I have to admit those articles are deprecated.

It's set-and-forget setup, you don't have to care much about how JS files are handled.…