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This commit uses esbuild-loader instead of ts-loader.
As part of our move to supporting web extensions, we moved from a pure esbuild configuration to a webpack based one. However the default TypeScript webpack bundler is slow compared to esbuild. We knew this when moving, but delayed figuring out how to use esbuild at a later date.
This commit uses esbuild-loader instead of ts-loader, which reduces build times from ~8-10 seconds to ~2-3 seconds. This benefits local development time as well as in CI. In CI we package 9 platforms, each taking over a minute to package. This now takes a few seconds for each platform.
This is a short term fix, as we plan to move to a pure esbuild configuration in the future.