esbuild-plugin-node-externals

An ESBuild plugin to automatically mark Node.js dependencies (runtime, dev, peer, optional) as external during bundling. Current stable version is 1.0.1, actively maintained on GitHub with TypeScript types included. Key differentiator: provides granular control over which dependency categories to externalize (deps, devDeps, peerDeps, optDeps) and allows selective inclusion of specific packages. Alternatives like `esbuild-node-externals` offer less configuration flexibility.