mkdist

Lightweight file-to-file transformer

✅ Copies all assets

✅ Supports Vue Single File Components

✅ Fast and minimal transform by esbuild

✅ .d.ts generation for .ts, .js and .vue files

✅ Support postcss (autoprefixer, cssnano and postcss-nested enabled out of the box!)

❓ Why?

Bundling libraries isn't always the best choice:

• We lose original file structure
• We lose modern syntax by transpiling in bundle
• We lose critical-css by extracting css to a global dist (vue)
• Dependencies will be always imported from bundle even if not used (a second bundling step might fix this but it usually won't happen in development and for dependencies with side-effects)

While there are tools like tsc and @babel/cli, they mostly focus on transpiling rather than keeping source level quality. Also they lack support for handling custom extensions like .vue and copying assets.

🚀 Usage

 npx mkdist [rootDir] [--src=src] [--dist=dist] [--pattern=glob [--pattern=more-glob]] [--format=cjs|esm] [-d|--declaration] [--ext=mjs|js|ts]

License

MIT