[AskJS] Advantages of Rollup over other bundlers for creating libraries?

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  • vite

    Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

    Rollup is only a bundler. It doesn't provide a development server like WebPack, for example. This doesn't mean you can't build an app with it, but for convenience it's usually better to go with a framework that uses Rollup as part of its dependencies, like Vite, which integrates it into its development server.

  • swc

    Rust-based platform for the Web

    Rollup is highly configurable via plugins. It also supports a wide range of transpilation targets. However, it's written in JavaScript (well, TypeScript) so there's a ceiling on how fast it can go. esbuild and swc are orders-of-magnitude faster than Rollup.

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  • esbuild

    An extremely fast bundler for the web

    Rollup is highly configurable via plugins. It also supports a wide range of transpilation targets. However, it's written in JavaScript (well, TypeScript) so there's a ceiling on how fast it can go. esbuild and swc are orders-of-magnitude faster than Rollup.

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