Rollup
Next-generation ES module bundler (by rollup)
esbuild
An extremely fast bundler for the web (by evanw)
Rollup | esbuild | |
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90 | 359 | |
25,819 | 39,016 | |
0.3% | 0.4% | |
9.5 | 9.1 | |
4 days ago | 26 days ago | |
JavaScript | Go | |
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 2025-06-20.
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Building a Stream Deck plugin to invoke a Lambda function
Next, we'll add the new folder com.mauricebrg.lambda-invoke.sdPlugin/imgs/actions/lambda and place an SVG with the Lambda logo from the official AWS Icon pack there. This allows us to reference a custom image later on. Now we'll start some preparations for us to invoke the Lambda function. We'll need to install the AWS SDK for that, but that requires another plugin for the bundler, since rollup seems to treat the AWS SDK as an ES Module, which it isn't. To work around that, we'll install the JSON plugin for rollup using npm i --save-dev @rollup/plugin-json and edit rollup.config.mjs:
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JavaScript is so redundant
Why are there so many JavaScript build tools? Gulp, Grunt, Webpack, Laravel Mix, Rollup.js, and now Vite. And these are just the ones that I've worked with. Haven't we solved this problem? And why build a new tool? Why not improve existing tools?
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⚔️ Vite vs. Turbopack in 2025: Which One to Choose?
Vite (pronounced veet) was created by Evan You (Vue's creator) and launched in 2020. It uses native ES modules in the browser and esbuild for lightning-fast dev servers and Rollup for optimized production builds.
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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.
esbuild
Posts with mentions or reviews of esbuild.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-18.
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Why and how to optimize your Lambda
I recommend using NodeJS, not because it fits the event-driven, non-blocking model, but because it is very well-suited for reducing file size by bundling the code. Esbuild is a great tool to bundle your Lambda. It is already included in the CDK construct NodeJSFunction when using AWS CDK, and you don't need source maps, at least not in production.
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__Pure__ annotation in Zod source code.
You will find an issue related to pureannotations in esbuild repository.
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⚔️ Vite vs. Turbopack in 2025: Which One to Choose?
Vite (pronounced veet) was created by Evan You (Vue's creator) and launched in 2020. It uses native ES modules in the browser and esbuild for lightning-fast dev servers and Rollup for optimized production builds.
- Esbuild – An Fast Bundler for the Web
- Quais as melhores ferramentas para trabalhar com Node?
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Understanding how Vite deals with your node_modules
Pre-bundle all the dependencies on the "optimization boundary" list into node_modules/.vite/deps/ folder. This step is done by esbuild.
- Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button
- A 10x Faster TypeScript
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Extensible WASM Applications with Go
ESBuild is a bundler. The subtitle on the website is literally “An extremely fast bundler for the web”. To bundle, pass —-bundle flag.
https://esbuild.github.io/
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How I Built a SpeedtestTracker with Raspberry PI and AWS Lambda
esbuild for bunding both the client and server separately
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Rollup and esbuild you can also consider the following projects:
parcel - The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀
swc - Rust-based platform for the Web
gulp - A toolkit to automate & enhance your workflow
ncc - Compile a Node.js project into a single file. Supports TypeScript, binary addons, dynamic requires.
tsup - The simplest and fastest way to bundle your TypeScript libraries.
vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!