Consume perspective with esbuild

[LukeSheard]

Support Question

While perspective itself is build with esbuild there's no documentation for projects which are using esbuild themselves to build their applications.

I setup a simple test to see whether this worked directly and it does, however it produces a 12.2MB bundle which is just un-consumable and there's a warning about perspective being inlined.

I couldn't find on the website or in the issues any documentation for setting up with non-webpack projects. I would imagine there needs be to a separate esbuild plugin for consuming perspective similar to webpack?

[timkpaine]

#1611 (comment)

[texodus]

There is a plugin for this in tools/perspective-build that perspective uses to build itself; we plan to publish this in 1.1.0.

While the inline-ed version is a large JavaScript file, in practice the difference between these builds on initial load time over a modern connection is likely to be quite small (e.g. 200ms vs 1.5s, testing myself on a 5g device from unpkg). This is unfortunate, but not un-consumable - is there something I'm missing?

Paralell/native wasm perspective example

Inline single-js perspective example