add missing dep esbuild on init

[jycouet]

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[WesleyKapow]

I had to add esbuild manually. This would have saved me that debug step.

[terryaney]

@WesleyKapow

What do you mean by this?

I had to add esbuild manually. This would have saved me that debug step.

This enables 'debugging' the index.ts files?

[jycouet]

If your run the setup and select typescript, you NEED esbuild, if not, the runner will not run.

So today, each people running the setup selecting typescript need to find out that there is a missing dep: esbuild.

This PR fix this. (not related to debugging.)

[terryaney]

Interesting. I am running Typescript and runner works fine. Here is my package.json:

[jycouet]

You probably have typescript & esbuild installed globally?

[terryaney]

Yeah, must have. I have other 'real' typescript projects. And my son started messing with AOC and we needed to do exactly this :) Thanks.

[srflp]

A better solution is to properly find a path of esbuild and run it from there, since it's already installed in aocrunner. There's no need to install in template too.

buildSource.ts file:

 import { spawnSync } from "child_process"
 import path from "path"
+import { fileURLToPath } from "url"

 const buildSource = (input: string | string[], sourcemap: boolean = true) => {
   const files = Array.isArray(input) ? input : [input]
   const outDir = Array.isArray(input)
     ? "dist"
     : path.parse(input).dir.replace(/^src/, "dist")

   console.log("Transpiling...\n")

+  const esbuild = fileURLToPath(import.meta.resolve("esbuild/bin/esbuild"))

   spawnSync(
     "npx",
     [
-      "esbuild",
+      esbuild,
       ...files,
       "--format=esm",
       `--outdir=${outDir}`,
       "--platform=node",
       "--target=node16",
       ...(sourcemap ? ["--sourcemap"] : []),
     ],
     { stdio: "inherit", shell: true },
   )
 }

export default buildSource

I tested it with node 22 (bumped all deps) and pnpm in both aocrunner and my template and it worked fine.