Support glob inside npm scripts

[brunoluiz]

Currently, the following command produces what is expected, with the correct structure:

esbuild ./src/**/*.ts --outdir=dist

But, running the same command as an npm-script will not work, as npm itself seems to have a different way to do glob matching

{
  ...
  "scripts": { "build": "esbuild ./src/**/*.ts --outdir=dist" }
  ...
}

[brunoluiz]

To be fair, it is probably because I use zsh, but internally npm uses sh or bash iirc. There are some projects (eslint, mocha) which bypass this by parsing globs when the input is specified inside single quote marks. In this case, esbuild with glob parsing would look like esbuild './src/**/*.ts' --outdir=dist

[evanw]

I'm not going to encode zsh-specific features into esbuild. There are many different shells and I think it's best if esbuild remains shell-agnostic. There are also features specific to Windows Command Prompt that esbuild doesn't emulate, for example.

If you would like for this to work you are welcome to write a small script to do this yourself. I assume the most straightforward way to do this would be to use the glob package with esbuild's JavaScript API.

[brunoluiz]

Makes sense. As it is a personal one-man project, I just ended up doing zsh -c 'esbuild ./src/**/*.ts --outdir=dist'. Would be nice to have this glob syntax as other projects do though (as mocha, eslint etc).

Anyways, closing it for now.