Microbundle VS Bit

To begin, you need to prepare your environment. A few ways to build a React package include tools like Bit, Storybook, Lerna, and TSDX. However, for this tutorial, you will use a zero-configuration bundler for tiny modules called Microbundle.

I discovered microbundle lately, and I would like to share with you a mini template with the bare essentials and comfort to develop your packages with TypeScript.

For package authoring - microbundle is a handy boilerplate (I would avoid tsdx personally - it’s basically been abandoned for turborepo but that’s not apparent at first glance).

My tech stack was React + Typescript, Storybook for docs, vite.js for build instead of webpack, microbundle for bundling (basically a no-config rollup wrapper), and Google's release please bot for handling release/deployment.

Setting up a modern Typescript or Javascript development stack is a daunting task, there are a lot of moving parts, and sometimes the whole process seems like magic, so I switched to Microbundle. While microbundle handles the compilation, there are a lot of other moving parts that need to be set up to start developing with Nodejs/Typescript (CI, tests, linting, etc). So I've created an opinionated template repository with Typescript, Microbundle, Jest, eslint, husky, prettier, github actions, pnpm, and a bunch of other scripts. It enables me to start developing a library immediately by using the repository as a starter template. Let me know what you think and if some processes could be improved, or some valuable tools that could be added. Pull requests and suggestions are welcomed.

I would recommend starting by using https://github.com/developit/microbundle , as it has pretty good default behavior for generating library output.

Check out microbundle, which is what TSDX started as a typescript alternative to.

I’m quite happy with Microbundle

Our demo solution was built using Bit, which allows us to create shareable components, render component “previews,” generate component docs, and so on.

UI libraries come with their own set of challenges, which greatly limit their effectiveness. These challenges stem from more fundamental problems related to code sharing and reuse. Let’s explore some of these challenges and examine how a new entity, the Bit component, addresses them.

The following diagram showcases how bit shows the dependency graph of modified components and their dependents.

This tutorial demonstrates how to build a micro frontend application using Vite and Bit.

Bit: A next-generation build system for composable software.

Bit drives a paradigm shift in the way we structure our software and collaborate on code. Its component-based approach produces more maintainable projects and more effective collaboration. However, the power of Bit is best harnessed when you adopt a certain mindset. This blog aims to guide you through the core principles and methodologies of building software with independent Bit components.

And one such tool that I've found that supports this component-driven approach is Bit.

This blog will explain how Bit can be used to implement any architecture and transform “fatal” decisions that seem too hard to change into decisions that are easy to make and change.

Oh can I address theses issues. I already looked at tools like Nx or Bit, but they aren't matching our needs with closed source libs.

To begin, you need to prepare your environment. A few ways to build a React package include tools like Bit, Storybook, Lerna, and TSDX. However, for this tutorial, you will use a zero-configuration bundler for tiny modules called Microbundle.