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electron/build/esbuild/configs/renderer.js
Sam Attard 646dfd24f7 build: replace webpack with esbuild for internal JS bundles
Replaces the webpack+ts-loader based bundler for Electron's 8 internal
init bundles (browser, renderer, worker, sandboxed_renderer,
isolated_renderer, node, utility, preload_realm) with a plain esbuild
driver under build/esbuild/. GN template now lives at
build/esbuild/esbuild.gni and is invoked via a new 'bundle' npm script.

Per-target configs move from build/webpack/webpack.config.<target>.js to
small data-only files under build/esbuild/configs/. ProvidePlugin's
global/Buffer/process/Promise capture moves to inject-shims under
build/esbuild/shims/. The wrapper-webpack-plugin try/catch and
___electron_webpack_init__ wrappers are applied as textual pre/postamble
inside the driver so shell/common/node_util.cc's CompileAndCall error
handling still works.

The old BUILDFLAG DefinePlugin pass is replaced with a small onLoad
regex that rewrites BUILDFLAG(NAME) to (true|false) using the
GN-generated buildflags.h. AccessDependenciesPlugin (used by
gen-filenames.ts to populate filenames.auto.gni) is replaced with
esbuild's built-in metafile via a new '--print-graph' flag.

A few source files needed small fixes to work under esbuild's
stricter CJS/ESM interop:

  - lib/browser/api/net.ts and lib/utility/api/net.ts mixed ESM
    'export function' with 'exports.x = ...' assignments, which
    esbuild treats as an ambiguous module. Switched to a single
    'module.exports = {}' with a getter for the dynamic 'online'
    property.

  - lib/common/timers-shim.ts is untouched; lib/common/init.ts no
    longer mutates the imported timers namespace (timers.setImmediate
    = wrap(...)). Under webpack the mutation applied to the bundled
    shim and was invisible to user apps; the refactor stores the
    wrapped values in local consts instead.

Drops webpack, webpack-cli, ts-loader, null-loader, and
wrapper-webpack-plugin from devDependencies. Adds esbuild.

Sequential build time for the 8 bundles drops from ~22s (webpack) to
~480ms (esbuild).
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module.exports = {
target: 'renderer',
alwaysHasNode: true,
targetDeletesNodeGlobals: true,
wrapInitWithProfilingTimeout: true,
wrapInitWithTryCatch: true
};