What is the difference between tsconfig's outDir vs esbuild's outdir? Seems like the do the same thing. esbuild supposedly detects the tsconfig, so which should I use? This is for a TypeScript library on npm.

CodePudding user response：

Only certain features of tsconfig.json are used by esbuild:

esbuild currently only inspects the following fields in tsconfig.json files:

• alwaysStrict
• baseUrl
• extends
• importsNotUsedAsValues
• jsx
• jsxFactory
• jsxFragmentFactory
• jsxImportSource
• paths
• preserveValueImports
• target
• useDefineForClassFields

Therefore you should use esbuild's outdir, the outDir configuration in tsfonfig.json will have no effect.