esbuild 0.13.1

v0.13.1

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Fix the esbuild package in yarn 2+

The yarn package manager version 2 and above has a mode called PnP that installs packages inside zip files instead of using individual files on disk, and then hijacks node's fs module to pretend that paths to files inside the zip file are actually individual files on disk so that code that wasn't written specifically for yarn still works. Unfortunately that hijacking is incomplete and it still causes certain things to break such as using these zip file paths to create a JavaScript worker thread or to create a child process.

This was an issue for the new optionalDependencies package installation strategy that was just released in version 0.13.0 since the binary executable is now inside of an installed package instead of being downloaded using an install script. When it's installed with yarn 2+ in PnP mode the binary executable is inside a zip file and can't be run. To work around this, esbuild detects yarn's PnP mode and copies the binary executable to a real file outside of the zip file.

Unfortunately the code to do this didn't create the parent directory before writing to the file path. That caused esbuild's API to crash when it was run for the first time. This didn't come up during testing because the parent directory already existed when the tests were run. This release changes the location of the binary executable from a shared cache directory to inside the esbuild package itself, which should fix this crash. This problem only affected esbuild's JS API when it was run through yarn 2+ with PnP mode active.