Rollup
Next-generation ES module bundler (by rollup)
browserify
browser-side require() the node.js way (by browserify)

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Rollup | browserify | |
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87 | 35 | |
25,773 | 14,677 | |
0.4% | 0.1% | |
9.5 | 5.3 | |
9 days ago | 5 months ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Rollup
Posts with mentions or reviews of Rollup.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-31.
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Valentine’s Day Breakup: React Dumps Create React App
Vite is a modern frontend build tool used to develop fast and super efficient web applications. It serves files instantly and ensures that changes are updated immediately after they are implemented. It makes use of Rollup for optimized builds and has support for when you want to build a Javascript library (instead of a full app).
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Advanced Guide to Using Vite with React in 2025
In 2025, mastering Vite for your React projects means leveraging powerful configurations, intelligent optimizations, and a robust plugin ecosystem. By understanding Vite’s modern architecture—native ES modules (ESM) during development and optimized Rollup bundling for production—you can significantly streamline your workflow, improve developer experience, and deliver fast, performant applications at scale.
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Optimizing React Development with Vite🤩.
6. Production-Ready Code Vite uses Rollup for production builds, which optimizes the code by bundling it efficiently, performing tree shaking, and minifying JavaScript. This results in smaller, optimized production builds that are ready for deployment.
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What is Evan You doing by creating VoidZero, and what are the issues with JS toolchains?
Meanwhile, esbulid (developed in Go language, as introduced earlier) and rollup can also be used separately as packaging tools, and many third-party JS plugins are packaged using rollup.
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Node.js: A brief history of cjs, bundlers, and esm
npm packages dramatically sped up the productivity of developers by being able to leverage other developers' work. However, it had a major disadvantage: cjs was not compatible with web browsers. To solve this problem, the concept of bundlers was born. browserify was the first bundler which essentially worked by traversing an entry point and "bundling" all the require()-ed code into a single .js file compatible with web browsers. As time went on, other bundlers with additional features and differentiators were introduced. Most notably webpack, parcel, rollup, esbuild and vite (in chronological order).
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How to Build Multi-Platform Executable Binaries in Node.js with SEA, Rollup, Docker, and GitHub
Rollup is a module bundler for JavaScript which compiles small pieces of code into something larger and more complex, such as a library or application. Rollup Documentation
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Documentation Release Notes - November 2024
The JS SDK now lets you opt out of specific modules you don't need and optimize the final bundle size. You can do that by using either of two popular JavaScript build tools: Rollup or Webpack.
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How to Create an NPM Packages using Rollup.js + Lerna.js + Jfrog Artifactory
Rollup.js is a JavaScript module bundler that compiles small pieces of code into larger, more complex applications. It is particularly well-suited for bundling ES6 modules and is known for its efficient tree-shaking capabilities, which eliminate unused code from the final bundle, resulting in smaller file sizes.
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Why You Should TRUST Frameworks (And What It Takes to Build One From Scratch)
Rollup bundles runtime artifacts.
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Building Auth0 Actions in TypeScript
This is also a valid approach, but what we really want is to be able to write our code in TypeScript and have it transpile into the JavaScript we need. Enter Rollup.
browserify
Posts with mentions or reviews of browserify.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-12-12.
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Node.js: A brief history of cjs, bundlers, and esm
npm packages dramatically sped up the productivity of developers by being able to leverage other developers' work. However, it had a major disadvantage: cjs was not compatible with web browsers. To solve this problem, the concept of bundlers was born. browserify was the first bundler which essentially worked by traversing an entry point and "bundling" all the require()-ed code into a single .js file compatible with web browsers. As time went on, other bundlers with additional features and differentiators were introduced. Most notably webpack, parcel, rollup, esbuild and vite (in chronological order).
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How to Create a Real-time Public Transportation Schedule App
Browserify to use node packages in the browser.
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5 Different Tools to Bundle Node.js Apps
Browserify is a widely used JavaScript bundler with over 2 million NPM weekly downloads. In addition to Node.js support, allowing developers to use require() statements in the browser is one of its highlighted features.
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JavaScript Module Bundlers and all that Jazz ✨
This began to change when NPM came in and running npm install became a quick and easy way to install dependencies. Browserify became the first JavaScript bundler. As its documentation says -
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How to use any NPM module with Browserify in the browser
Using Npm Module with Browserify
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What stack would you use for building a landing page?
https://www.npmjs.com/package/browserify probably a little old school, but browserify is probably good enough.
- Node.js やReact、ESM、Viteの説明
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Hack to Run React Application inside Service Worker
One problem was to run jsDOM as UMD module. But luckly I was able to use browserify to compile jsDOM into UMD.
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Front-end Guide
Browserify
- How to serve my JS / node API client page?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Rollup and browserify you can also consider the following projects:
gulp - A toolkit to automate & enhance your workflow
RequireJS - A file and module loader for JavaScript
parcel - The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀
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.
vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

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