Esbuild: Node: Support `esbuild/register` hook?

[lukeed]

Hey!

Are you interested in offering an esbuild/register hook, or should I plan on creating my own package for this? (Willing to PR)

The idea is to take the place of these:

$ node -r ts-node/register example.ts
$ node -r esm example

Since esbuild can fill the same role, it would make sense for this to exist. Nearly all ts-node/register use cases are only transpiling (example).

You'll also see this a lot with @babel/register once JSX is involved (example).

Don't recall if esbuild can read a config file, but like the rest of these, the register hook would pick up & apply config to all files.

Thanks!

[egoist]

I made https://github.com/egoist/esbuild-register but it requires esm too, btw this seems like a duplicate of #148

[evanw]

Yes, closing as a duplicate of #148. Since ts-node looks kind of complicated, I think it would be good for people to experiment with "register" functionality outside of esbuild core in an independent package.