esbuild-clean-plugin

An esbuild plugin to clean your build folder.

Installation

npm install esbuild-clean-plugin

Requirements

• Node 22.11.0 (LTS) or later.
• esbuild 0.18.20 or later.

Usage

import * as esbuild from 'esbuild';
import { cleanPlugin } from 'esbuild-clean-plugin';
import path from 'path';

const context = await esbuild.context({
  bundle: true,
  entryPoints: [path.resolve(import.meta.dirname, 'index.js')],
  metafile: true,
  outdir: path.resolve(import.meta.dirname, 'dist'),
  plugins: [cleanPlugin({
      // Plugin options
  })],
});

await context.watch();

Note: The metafile and outdir options must be set for the plugin to have any effect.

Options

• dry (default false) - Run the plugin in dry mode, not deleting anything. Most useful together with the verbose option to see what would have been deleted.
• initialCleanPatterns (default ['**/*']) - File patterns to remove on plugin setup, useful to clean the build directory before creating new files. Pass an empty array to disable it.
• verbose (default false) - Print all files that have been deleted after each run.