JavaScript Module Bundlers and all that Jazz ✨

1. webpack

   1 382 65,743 9.9 JavaScript

   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.

   

   Webpack is a static module bundler for modern JavaScript applications. On processing your application - Webpack internally builds a dependency graph from one or more entry points and then combines every module your project needs into one or more bundles, which are static assets from which content is served.

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3. Rollup

   2 97 26,282 9.5 JavaScript

   Next-generation ES module bundler

   

   Other popular build tools include Vite.js, Browserify, Rollup - The bundler behind vite.

4. parcel

   3 187 44,026 7.7 JavaScript

   The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀

   

   Parcel is a popular zero configuration build tool for the web. Some of its popular features include -

5. gulp

   4 50 32,964 3.9 JavaScript

   A toolkit to automate & enhance your workflow

   

   Browserify was great at bundling scripts, but what if we need to transform code - Say compile CoffeeScript to JavaScript, for this, a new group of tools for the web was born, which focussed on running code transforms. These are usually called task runners, and the most popular ones are Grunt and Gulp.

6. grunt

   5 24 12,241 3.0 JavaScript

   Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner

   

   Browserify was great at bundling scripts, but what if we need to transform code - Say compile CoffeeScript to JavaScript, for this, a new group of tools for the web was born, which focussed on running code transforms. These are usually called task runners, and the most popular ones are Grunt and Gulp.

7. browserify

   6 36 14,735 5.3 JavaScript

   browser-side require() the node.js way

   

   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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