barely-a-dev-server

A thin, opinionated wrapper for esbuild that watches and serves TypeScript files as ESM. Current stable version: 0.8.3. Release cadence: irregular, with multiple minor releases in 2024. Key differentiators: minimal codebase (<200 lines), zero runtime dependencies beyond esbuild, automatic source maps, and integrated dev server that maps entry .ts files to .js. Unlike esbuild's own --servedir, this directly serves compiled output with live rebuilds. No CLI, no live reload, no non-TS transformations. Requires Node >=19 or Bun >=1.0.30.