diff --git a/packages/esbuild/.eslintrc.json b/packages/esbuild/.eslintrc.json
index f0dbac3f0c..cfc1f67101 100644
--- a/packages/esbuild/.eslintrc.json
+++ b/packages/esbuild/.eslintrc.json
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
           {
             "name": "chalk",
             "message": "Please use `picocolors` in place of `chalk` for rendering terminal colors"
+          },
+          {
+            "name": "fs-extra",
+            "message": "Please use equivalent utilities from `node:fs` instead."
           }
         ]
       }
diff --git a/packages/esbuild/package.json b/packages/esbuild/package.json
index de288aa104..cbd8422b90 100644
--- a/packages/esbuild/package.json
+++ b/packages/esbuild/package.json
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
     "@nx/devkit": "file:../devkit",
     "@nx/js": "file:../js",
     "fast-glob": "3.2.7",
-    "fs-extra": "^11.1.0",
     "picocolors": "^1.1.0",
     "tsconfig-paths": "^4.1.2",
     "tslib": "^2.3.0"
diff --git a/packages/esbuild/src/executors/esbuild/esbuild.impl.ts b/packages/esbuild/src/executors/esbuild/esbuild.impl.ts
index 79feb7f16c..013d16e16d 100644
--- a/packages/esbuild/src/executors/esbuild/esbuild.impl.ts
+++ b/packages/esbuild/src/executors/esbuild/esbuild.impl.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 import * as pc from 'picocolors';
 import type { ExecutorContext } from '@nx/devkit';
-import { cacheDir, joinPathFragments, logger, stripIndents } from '@nx/devkit';
+import {
+  cacheDir,
+  joinPathFragments,
+  logger,
+  stripIndents,
+  writeJsonFile,
+} from '@nx/devkit';
 import {
   copyAssets,
   copyPackageJson,
@@ -13,7 +19,6 @@ import * as esbuild from 'esbuild';
 import { normalizeOptions } from './lib/normalize';
 
 import { EsBuildExecutorOptions } from './schema';
-import { removeSync, writeJsonSync } from 'fs-extra';
 import { createAsyncIterable } from '@nx/devkit/src/utils/async-iterable';
 import {
   buildEsbuildOptions,
@@ -22,6 +27,7 @@ import {
 } from './lib/build-esbuild-options';
 import { getExtraDependencies } from './lib/get-extra-dependencies';
 import { DependentBuildableProjectNode } from '@nx/js/src/utils/buildable-libs-utils';
+import { rmSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { join, relative } from 'path';
 
 const BUILD_WATCH_FAILED = `[ ${pc.red(
@@ -43,7 +49,8 @@ export async function* esbuildExecutor(
   process.env.NODE_ENV ??= context.configurationName ?? 'production';
 
   const options = normalizeOptions(_options, context);
-  if (options.deleteOutputPath) removeSync(options.outputPath);
+  if (options.deleteOutputPath)
+    rmSync(options.outputPath, { recursive: true, force: true });
 
   const assetsResult = await copyAssets(options, context);
 
@@ -190,7 +197,7 @@ export async function* esbuildExecutor(
           options.format.length === 1
             ? 'meta.json'
             : `meta.${options.format[i]}.json`;
-        writeJsonSync(
+        writeJsonFile(
           joinPathFragments(options.outputPath, filename),
           buildResult.metafile
         );
diff --git a/packages/esbuild/src/utils/fs.ts b/packages/esbuild/src/utils/fs.ts
index 76948da59b..46dff4241a 100644
--- a/packages/esbuild/src/utils/fs.ts
+++ b/packages/esbuild/src/utils/fs.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import * as path from 'path';
-import { removeSync } from 'fs-extra';
+import { rmSync } from 'node:fs';
 
 /**
  * Delete an output directory, but error out if it's the root of the project.
@@ -10,5 +10,5 @@ export function deleteOutputDir(root: string, outputPath: string) {
     throw new Error('Output path MUST not be project root directory!');
   }
 
-  removeSync(resolvedOutputPath);
+  rmSync(resolvedOutputPath, { recursive: true, force: true });
 }