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Shrinking Azure Pipeline task extensions using esbuild

TL;DR We bundled an internal Azure Pipelines task extension into a single bundled JavaScript file using esbuild. The task package dropped from tens of megabytes and thousands of files to three files per task ( script.js ,  task.json , and  icon.png ). The change took about 20 lines of build tooling. We measured the payoff across our production pipelines: […]