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+# Use esbuild for production builds
+
+- Status: TBD
+- Deciders: Ben Bangert, Wil Clouser, Dan Schomburg, Barry Chen, Julian Poyourow, Lauren Zugai, Vijay Budhram
+- Date: 2023-03-29
+
+## Context and Problem Statement
+
+We currently use esbuild throughout the code base for running tests and starting up local development servers.
+This has proven to be much faster and better for developer experience than compiling with typescript.
+
+We do not, however, use esbuild in production. This means we compile our code using tsc just prior to deployment.
+This is slow when compared to using esbuild, and often results in last minute typescript errors being encountered
+on deployment.
+
+## Decision Drivers
+
+- Faster deployments
+- Better parity between test/development and production
+- Ability to retain type checking
+- Ability to catch typescript errors early
+
+## Considered Options
+
+- A: Switch to using esbuild in production and add CI job for type checking
+- B: Continue using esbuild for dev/test and tsc for production
+- C: Switch everything over to tsc
+
+## Decision Outcome
+
+After a decent amount of discussion, we have decided to switch over to esbuild for our production builds. Other
+teams have made the switch and not encountered major issues.
+
+We will still use tsc, but do so in a separate CI job. This job is only responsible for running typescript compilation,
+and can be run in parallel with other build operations.
+
+By combining these two approaches we get the best of both worlds. We retain type safety, catch typescript errors sooner
+rather than later, and have speedier builds that are closely with what we put under test.
+
+## Pros and Cons of the Options
+
+### A: Switch to using esbuild in production and add CI job for type checking
+
+- Good, because it makes deployments faster
+- Good, because it is similar to how we test and develop
+- Good, because we can retain type safety by using a separate, preliminary CI job
+- Good, because other teams have made this switch and viewed it as positive
+- Bad, because esbuild is still on v0 and breaking changes could be introduced to the project
+
+### B: Continue using esbuild for dev/test and tsc for production
+
+- Good, because we do not have to change anything
+- Good, because we are not using a v0 in production
+- Bad, because we would continue to encounter problems late in the deployment process
+- Bad, because our deployments would continue to slow
+
+### C: Switch everything over to tsc
+
+- Good, because we are not relying on something that is still a v0
+- Bad, because it does not speed up deployments
+- Bad, because it makes testing slower
+- Bad, because it makes local development slower
+- Bad, because we'd have to make a bunch of changes to our npm scripts