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How “esbuild” trended on Hacker News

“Esbuild” was mentioned 1,997 times on Hacker News between 2020 and 2026, peaking in Sep 2021 with 180 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “esbuild” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “esbuild”

1. 1.Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler 679 points · 281 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
2. 2.ESbuild – A fast JavaScript bundler and minifier in Go 355 points · 133 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Why Is Esbuild Fast? 320 points · 166 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Esbuild 0.9 254 points · 116 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Some notes on using esbuild 246 points · 199 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Show HN: Astra – a new js2exe compiler 61 points · 33 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Does anybody else feel overwhelmed by the JavaScript ecosystem? 50 points · 37 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Show HN: Titan – JavaScript-first framework that compiles into a Rust server 49 points · 26 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Show HN: Vibecoders – Find software engineers that are good at vibecoding 17 points · 18 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Phoenix 1.6 will switch to esbuild by default, dropping node and NPM 16 points · 5 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Show HN: Tetra – A full stack component framework for Django using Alpine.js 11 points · 0 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Ask HN: How the $ ^ do I learn web? 10 points · 9 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN

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