craco-esbuild

craco-esbuild is a CRACO plugin that replaces Babel and Terser in Create React App with esbuild for significantly faster compilation, development, and test runs. Version 0.6.1 is stable but sees infrequent releases. It swaps babel-loader for esbuild-loader, TerserPlugin for ESBuildMinifyPlugin, and optionally OptimizeCssAssetsWebpackPlugin for esbuild's CSS minifier. Jest tests can use esbuild-jest instead of babel-jest. Requires @craco/craco ^7.0.0 and react-scripts ^5.0.0. Unlike alternatives like react-app-rewired or custom CRA forks, craco-esbuild integrates via CRACO's plugin system and does not require ejecting or maintaining a separate Webpack config.