# rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify
> Rollup plugin to minify or clean up generated bundles using esbuild.
Latest version **1.3.0** (published 2025-04-26) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads
## Install
```sh
npm install rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify
pnpm add rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify
yarn add rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify
bun add rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify
```
## Health
**Score 30/100 (F)** — status: maintenance-mode.
Positive: esm support; no vulnerabilities.
Warnings: low downloads; no types.
Negative: stale; low maintenance score.
## Facts
| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.3.0 |
| Published | 2025-04-26 |
| First published | 2022-05-17 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | none |
| Module format | ESM + CommonJS |
| Node | >= 14.18 |
| Dependencies | 1 |
| Unpacked size | 11.9 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 3 |
| Author | Ferdinand Prantl |
| Maintainers | prantlf |
| Keywords | rollup, plugin, rollup-plugin, minify, esbuild |
## Links
- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify
- Repository: https://github.com/prantlf/rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify
- Homepage: http://github.com/prantlf/rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify/
- Issues: http://github.com/prantlf/rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify
## Dependencies (1)
- [esbuild](https://npm.io/package/esbuild.md) ^0.25.3
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## Recent versions
- 1.3.0 (latest) — 2025-04-26
- 1.2.0 — 2024-12-10
- 1.1.2 — 2024-08-06
- 1.1.1 — 2023-10-08
- 1.1.0 — 2023-04-23
- 1.0.8 — 2023-04-23
- 1.0.7 — 2022-10-30
- 1.0.6 — 2022-08-01
- 1.0.5 — 2022-06-18
- 1.0.4 — 2022-06-03
- 1.0.3 — 2022-06-03
- 1.0.2 — 2022-05-19
- 1.0.1 — 2022-05-18
- 1.0.0 — 2022-05-17
## README
# rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify
[
](https://www.npmjs.com/package/rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify)
[](https://codecov.io/gh/prantlf/rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify)
[Rollup] plugin to minify or clean up generated bundles using [esbuild].
Simpler than [rollup-plugin-esbuild] and [rollup-plugin-esbuild-transform], focusing only on minification of the bundled JavaScript output. Faster than [@rollup/plugin-terser]. See also [benchmark results of various minifiers].
## Synopsis
```js
import { minify } from 'rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify'
export default {
plugins: [minify()]
// the rest of the configuration
}
```
## Installation
Make sure that you use [Node.js] 14 or newer and [Rollup] 2 or newer. Use your favourite package manager - [NPM], [PNPM] or [Yarn]:
```sh
npm i -D rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify
pnpm i -D rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify
yarn add -D rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify
```
## Usage
Create a `rollup.config.js` [configuration file] and import the plugin:
```js
import { minify } from 'rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify'
export default {
input: 'src/index.js',
output: { file: 'dist/main.js', format: 'iife', sourcemap: true },
plugins: [
minify({ logLevel: 'debug', logLimit: 100 })
]
}
```
Then call `rollup` either via the [command-line] or [programmatically].
## Options
The following options can be passed in an object to the plugin function to change the default values.
### `logLevel`
Type: `'silent' | 'error' | 'warning' | 'info' | 'debug' | 'verbose'`
Default: `'warning'`
Controls the number and detail of progress messages logged on the console.
See also the [original documentation](https://esbuild.github.io/api/#log-level).
### `logLimit`
Type: `Integer`
Default: `10`
Maximum number of logged messages. If zero (`0`) is provided, all messages will be logged.
See also the [original documentation](https://esbuild.github.io/api/#log-limit).
### `legalComments`
Type: `'none' | 'inline' | 'eof' | 'linked' | 'external'`
Default: `'none'`
Allows including or extracting legal comments. A "legal comment" is considered to be any statement-level comment that contains `@license` or `@preserve` or that starts with `//!` or `/*!`.
See also the [original documentation](https://esbuild.github.io/api/#legal-comments).
### `minify`
Type: `Boolean`
Default: `true`
Allows disabling the minification. The code will be pretty-printed instead. It can be used to clean up the code.
See also the [original documentation](https://esbuild.github.io/api/#minify).
## Contributing
In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Lint and test your code.
## License
Copyright (C) 2022-2024 Ferdinand Prantl
Licensed under the [MIT License].
[MIT License]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
[Rollup]: https://rollupjs.org/
[Node.js]: https://nodejs.org/
[NPM]: https://www.npmjs.com/
[PNPM]: https://pnpm.io/
[Yarn]: https://yarnpkg.com/
[configuration file]: https://www.rollupjs.org/guide/en/#configuration-files
[command-line]: https://www.rollupjs.org/guide/en/#command-line-reference
[programmatically]: https://www.rollupjs.org/guide/en/#javascript-api
[rollup-plugin-esbuild]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/rollup-plugin-esbuild
[rollup-plugin-esbuild-transform]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/rollup-plugin-esbuild-transform
[@rollup/plugin-terser]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@rollup/plugin-terser
[esbuild]: https://esbuild.github.io/
[benchmark results of various minifiers]: https://github.com/prantlf/minification-benchmarks#-results
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