diff --git a/__tests__/demo/demo-components/index.js b/__tests__/demo/demo-components/index.js
index 7719f1a7..c4de6ae2 100644
--- a/__tests__/demo/demo-components/index.js
+++ b/__tests__/demo/demo-components/index.js
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 import React, { useState, useRef } from 'react';
 
 // root of this project
-import MaterialTable, { MTableBodyRow, MTableEditRow } from '../../../src';
+import MaterialTable, {
+  MTableBodyRow,
+  MTableEditRow
+} from '../../../dist_esbuild';
 
 export { default as EditableRowDateColumnIssue } from './EditableRowDateColumnIssue';
 
diff --git a/babel.config.js b/babel.config.js
deleted file mode 100644
index f1d30615..00000000
--- a/babel.config.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-module.exports = {
-  presets: ['@babel/preset-env', '@babel/react'],
-  plugins: [
-    '@babel/plugin-transform-runtime',
-    '@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties',
-    '@babel/plugin-proposal-object-rest-spread'
-  ]
-};
diff --git a/esbuild.config.js b/esbuild.config.js
index 3c515890..a5afc957 100644
--- a/esbuild.config.js
+++ b/esbuild.config.js
@@ -1,17 +1,3 @@
-/**
-
-
-
- * THIS FILE IS NOT IN USE RIGHT NOW
- * We had issues using esbuild - I just need to revisit
- * (I think the root of the issue wasn't even esbuild so we
- * may just need to publish a test pkg using it)
- 
- 
- * - oze4 -
- 
- */
-
 const { build } = require('esbuild');
 const { red, green, yellow, italic } = require('chalk');
 const rimraf = require('rimraf');
@@ -21,7 +7,14 @@ const fs = require('fs');
 const { log } = console;
 const { stdout, stderr, exit } = process;
 
-const BUILD_DIR = 'dist'; // relative to root of project (no trailing slash)
+/**
+ * OUTPUT PATH IS SET HERE!!
+ *
+ * relative to root of project
+ *
+ * !! NO TRAILING SLASH !!
+ */
+const BUILD_DIR = 'dist';
 
 stdout.write(yellow(`-Cleaning build artifacts from : '${BUILD_DIR}' `));
 
@@ -35,10 +28,12 @@ rimraf(path.resolve(__dirname, BUILD_DIR), async (error) => {
 
   const options = {
     entryPoints: getFilesRecursive('./src', '.js'),
+    minifySyntax: true,
     minify: true,
     bundle: false,
     outdir: `${BUILD_DIR}`,
-    format: 'cjs',
+    target: 'es6',
+    // format: 'cjs',
     loader: {
       '.js': 'jsx'
     }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index e012ab8d..ad293a26 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -7,19 +7,16 @@
   "version": "3.2.5",
   "description": "Datatable for React based on https://material-ui.com/api/table/ with additional features",
   "main": "dist/index.js",
+  "type": "module",
   "types": "types/index.d.ts",
   "files": [
     "dist",
     "types"
   ],
-  "babel": {
-    "extends": "./babel.config.js"
-  },
   "scripts": {
     "start": "./node_modules/.bin/webpack serve --config ./__tests__/demo/webpack.config.js --mode development --progress",
     "build:esbuild": "node esbuild.config.js",
-    "build": "npm run build:root",
-    "build:root": "./node_modules/.bin/babel src -d dist",
+    "build": "npm run build:esbuild",
     "lint": "npm run eslint && npm run tsc",
     "eslint": "./node_modules/.bin/eslint src/** -c ./.eslintrc --ignore-path ./.eslintignore",
     "tsc": "./node_modules/.bin/tsc --noEmit --lib es6,dom --skipLibCheck types/index.d.ts",