shopify-packer VS b-creative

Shopify Packer written by Eric Hayes is probably the best thing happened to Shopify theme development since Shopify stopped supporting Slate. It's everything we all hoped for and that's a promise. Packer uses Webpack 5 with zero config to compile, bundle, split and minify your modern development technologies and start a server for development with hot module reloading actually working perfectly. It can also create, list and manipulate (delete, download, deploy etc) themes from your shop which is a lifesaver sometimes. I also love using Eric's Shopify Packer because it uses SCSS, Stylelint, ESLint, Babel and PostCSS. It can analyze bundles and have multiple entry points for templates and layouts. It's actually a CLI tool that’s installed globally and you can start a new project or integrate Packer with an existing theme in ridiculously little time. Most importantly you can easily customize all settings for the site and webpack if needed. Eric also provides quick support for the packer so i would highly recommend it and also buy him a beer because he deserves one for this!

B-creative is a modern frontend starter from Bornfight that has standardised opinionated code style and architecture for SCSS, Javascript and HTML/PHP/Liquid. It’s used and contributed by multiple teams. B-creative integrates perfectly with Packer because it uses the same linters so we can just copy their configs and have the same style across all platforms. Templates for SCSS and Javascript modules give us faster development times without having to write the same stuff over and over again. Using b-creative’s SCSS is also future proof because it provides tools to scale the site from 1440px (or any configured base resolution) to any bigger resolution and the site will look the same, while still giving the ability to have the other logic for mobile resolutions.