Rollup
Next-generation ES module bundler (by rollup)
parcel
The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀 (by parcel-bundler)
Rollup | parcel | |
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87 | 184 | |
25,716 | 43,767 | |
0.4% | 0.2% | |
9.5 | 9.3 | |
7 days ago | 10 days 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.
parcel
Posts with mentions or reviews of parcel.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-16.
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Create React App is Deprecated – What’s Next ?
Parcel is another alternative that requires zero configuration and is super fast. If you want a simple React setup without any hassle, Parcel is a great choice.
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Bun 1.2 Is Released
From its documentation [1] it looks a lot like a parceljs replacement [2], i.e. a zero config bundler which processes and bundles the dependencies in .html pages. So great for simple websites, not for replacing an entire Vite stack.
[1] https://bun.sh/docs/bundler/fullstack
[2] https://parceljs.org
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What is Evan You doing by creating VoidZero, and what are the issues with JS toolchains?
Packagers are the ones we most frequently come into contact with, such as Webpack Vite and Parcel. The latter may not be commonly used, but it is also a well-established tool.
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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).
- Parcel is a zero configuration build tool for the web
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TypeScript 5.7 RC Released, New npm Alternative, The Future of JavaScript Frameworks and more
The AI Framework Debate
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Bluetooth Low Energy based RGB LED Strip color control from a web browser and STM32
You will need a web bundler. You can use parcel.js
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Connecting to BLE device and Reading Characteristics using JavaScript
To run this script, we need a web bundler like parcel js.
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Tools and libraries widely used in micro frontend architectures!
Official Website
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From Parcel to Vite: A short story of a 100K LOC migration
Someone even opened a discussion to ask if Parcel is dead. The official answer is no, Parcel is still alive, but it's in a we-are-working-on-a-large-refactor-and-no-time-for-minor-releases state. To us, it's like a "duck death": The latest version we can use is from more than a year ago, and we don't know when the next version will be released. It looks like it's dead, it acts like it's dead, so it's dead to us. Trust me, we tried.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Rollup and parcel you can also consider the following projects:
gulp - A toolkit to automate & enhance your workflow
tsup - The simplest and fastest way to bundle your TypeScript libraries.
vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!
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.