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JS Toolbox 2024: Bundlers and Test Frameworks
Parcel 2 emphasizes a zero-configuration approach to bundling web applications. It's a powerful tool that offers a hassle-free developer experience, focusing on simplicity and speed.
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Build a Vite 5 backend integration with Flask
Once you build a simple Vite backend integration, try not to complicate Vite's configuration unless you absolutely must. Vite has become one of the most popular bundlers in the frontend space, but it wasn't the first and it certainly won't be the last. In my 7 years of building for the web, I've used Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, esbuild, and Parcel. Snowpack and Rome came-and-went before I ever had a chance to try them. Bun is vying for the spot of The New Hotness in bundling, Rome has been forked into Biome, and Vercel is building a Rust-based Webpack alternative.
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What is JSDoc and why you may not need typescript for your next project?
Parcel
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Building Node.js applications without dependencies
I’ve tried something similar on the frontend side: I decided to build a UI for Ollama.ai using only HTML, CSS, and JS (Single-Page Application). The goal is to learn something new and have zero runtime dependencies on other projects and NPM modules. Only Node and Parcel.js (https://parceljs.org/) are needed during development for serving files, bundling, etc. The only runtime dependency is a modern browser.
Here's what I have found so far:
- JavaScript (vanilla) is a viable alternative to React.js
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11 Ways to Optimize Your Website
Besides Webpack, there are many other popular web bundlers available, such as Parcel, Esbuild, Rollup, and more. They all have their own unique features and strengths, and you should make your decision based on the needs and requirements of your specific project. Please refer to their official websites for details.
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Bun vs Node.js: Everything you need to know
In the Node.js ecosystem, bundling is typically handled by third-party tools rather than Node.js itself. Some of the most popular bundlers in the Node.js world include Webpack, Rollup, and Parcel, offering features like code splitting, tree shaking, and hot module replacement.
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JavaScript Gom Jabbar
There are projects attempting to do more things. I've really enjoyed Parcel (https://parceljs.org). But it won't handle things like linting or unit testing, which you may or may not want. Vite is also pretty popular (https://vitejs.dev/), and it has a test runner.
Thing is, most of the problems described in the post aren't related to low-JS front-end libraries like HTMX or alpine. You can write React without a linter, bundler, build tool, unit testing, or linting. But with any of these projects at scale, you start wanting more:
- If you want to write unit tests in JS, you need to choose a test runner (probably Jest or Vitest -- until the built-in node testing module becomes more common).
- If you want linting, you need a linter (probably Eslint). If you want type safety, you need a type checker (probably Typescript).
- If you want to create smaller JS files to ship to production and to automatically handle assets, you need a bundler.
- If you want to use new language features while supporting old browsers, you need polyfills.
- If you want to use all these things together, you need something to bring it together (like Webpack).
So it really depends what you need! You may not need any. But as you can imagine, in many professional projects with multiple developers it's very nice to have unit tests, linting, and type checking :) (And you start caring about end-user performance a lot more, in which case optimizing the shipped bundle is important.)
Take all that, and then compare to a language like Rust, which has most of the "ecosystem stuff" built-in. In Rust, you get the test runner, the linter, dependency manager, type checker, and documentation tool all included. Easy! Thankfully, Rust doesn't have to care about whether users support modern language features (because it compiles down to lower code ahead of time), or whether the binary shipped to the client is optimally organized for downloading immediately over the internet.
It's a problem in JS because A) you have to care about more problems than many other languages since JS needs to load instantly over the wire in a web browser, and B) there is a huge amount of choice and not a lot of standardization in web tools. (And what standardization there is (Node, npm), there are still competitors trying to even further reduce the pain points.)
I think that in ten more years, we'll be in a better place, because there is push back (like this post!) against these problems, which will encourage more tools trying to solve the explosion of tools. Which seems counterintuitive, but these tools were created to solve very real problems. So I see it as a pendulum which has swung too far, but will likely swing back to a more balanced place. And you see that with tools like Vite gaining popularity.
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How To Secure Your JavaScript Applications
Bundling: Webpack, Parcel, Rollup
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5 Different Tools to Bundle Node.js Apps
Parcel is another popular bundler you can use to bundle Node.js applications. Unlike Webpack, you do not need to write additional configurations with Parcel since it is a zero-configuration bundler. It is capable of automatically detecting and bundling project dependencies.
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[AskJS] Seeking a Shortcut or Program to Toggle 'Active State' Between Two Monitors on a Mac Mini
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Tutorial: React + Emailjs
If you want to learn more about the Vite build tool here is a link to the documentation.
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Building a Fast, Efficient Web App: The Technology Stack of PromptSmithy Explained
We all know what React is at this point, but why use it with Vite and React Router DOM over something like NextJS?
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Creating Nx Workspace with Eslint, Prettier and Husky Configuration
Vite [ https://vitejs.dev/ ]
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Qilin: A Starter Project Template For Every Open Source Project
A great example of this is the introduction to the Vite project.
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Rendering a Million Rows in React by Drawing
/** * On component mount, initialze the worker. */ useEffect(() => { if (window.Worker) { // Refer to the Vite's Query Suffix syntax for loading your custom worker: https://vitejs.dev/guide/features.html#import-with-query-suffixes const worker = new CustomWorker(); workerRef.current = worker; } }, []);
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Micro Frontends with Vite and Bit
This tutorial demonstrates how to build a micro frontend application using Vite and Bit.
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Why I keep an eye on the Vue ecosystem and you should too
Vite came out in 2020 and is one of the fastest exploding tools in webdev I personally witnessed. From release to pretty much everybody is using it and shaming create-react-app was only about 2 years. Of course this happened for good reason, a basic setup was relatively easy, it had a very powerful plugin system, and compared to it's competition it was blazingly fast.
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What is Vinxi, and how does it compare to Vike?
Vinxi is really a kind of Meta-Router / Router Manager (built on the dev-server and bundler-toolkit Vite and the http-server Nitro). Vinxi uses various routers of your choosing as a core primitive, and allows you to compose them in a centralized config so that they work together. Be it server or client routers.
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🚀 Getting started with Vite
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What are some alternatives?
Next.js - The React Framework
esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web
swc - Rust-based platform for the Web
astro - The web framework for content-driven websites. ⭐️ Star to support our work!
Rollup - Next-generation ES module bundler
Laravel Mix - The power of webpack, distilled for the rest of us.
webpack - A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.
turborepo - Incremental bundler and build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust – including Turborepo and Turbopack. [Moved to: https://github.com/vercel/turbo]
SvelteKit - web development, streamlined
bun - Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one
nx - Smart Monorepos · Fast CI