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support customizing esbuild platform

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
50/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
node.js, typescript
Domain
build-system, cli

Research direction

Start by reading src/packup.ts around line 300, where the esbuild platform is currently set to browser. Trace how build options are received and passed through, then check how a configurable platform could be exposed. Done means a server-oriented plugin can select node as the platform and import Node.js built-ins successfully.

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Description

In order to develop plugins that are intended for server usage with node.js, it is important to be able to configure esbuild's platform argument. Currently it is set to browser, which prevents plugin code from importing node built-in libraries.

Would it be possible to make this configurable?

Thank you for this very useful library!

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TypeScript
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