Is Bundle / Compile command planned?

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Feature request

Allow bundling a Node.js app into JavaScript, so it can be executed later by node directly:

tsx bundle index.ts

Maybe some runtime configs could be lost on the final bundled file, but it may serve well in most use cases.

Motivations

Execute the final built .js file via node.

As tsx is capable of combining TypeScript configs and use esbuild under the hood, would it be viable to use tsconfig.json configuration (such as outDir) to generate a bundled .js output?

Alternatives

npx esbuild src/index.ts --bundle --platform=node --packages=external  > my-built-file.js

Additional context

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Contributions

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[privatenumber]

Thanks for the request!

Bundling is out of scope for tsx, but I have pkgroll for that which is more tailored for bundling: https://github.com/privatenumber/pkgroll

This is how tsx uses it (how to bundle is inferred from package.json):

tsx/package.json

Line 51 in 4f515ab

"build": "pkgroll --minify",