How ES Modules have redefined web development

• vite

  787 64,595 9.9 TypeScript

  Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

  

Vite is a major contender to note as well. This one was spearheaded by Evan You (the overlord of VueJS) to tackle a similar feature set to Snowpack. It's far too early to say whether I'd prefer this setup to Snowpack, but here's a nice comparison piece if you're considering either for serious apps.

• Snowpack

  69 19,787 8.4 JavaScript

  Discontinued ESM-powered frontend build tool. Instant, lightweight, unbundled development. ✌️ [Moved to: https://github.com/FredKSchott/snowpack] (by withastro)

  

Snowpack is really what got the ball rolling from my perspective. They promise all the selling points I listed above, plus the absolute fastest live-reloading in the biz. This is mainly because of that code splitting I mentioned earlier. Since they leave all those modules and dynamic imports in-tact, they avoid re-processing the JavaScript that didn't change. So if you just updated a single React component, it'll reprocess those 10 lines of code and blast it onto the page in a flash ⚡️

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• esbuild

  322 37,249 9.5 Go

  An extremely fast bundler for the web

There's also the crazy world of using different programming languages to process your code. ESBuild is a big contender right now, using GoLang to process JavaScript in no time flat.

• Next.js

  2,041 120,572 10.0 JavaScript

  The React Framework

  

This was certainly my first question when I read up on this. I recently graduated from create-react-app to NextJS as my React boilerplate go-to, but there's still that same webpack configuration + bundle process to think about 🤷‍♀️

• create-react-app

  575 101,853 1.5 JavaScript

  Set up a modern web app by running one command.

  

This was certainly my first question when I read up on this. I recently graduated from create-react-app to NextJS as my React boilerplate go-to, but there's still that same webpack configuration + bundle process to think about 🤷‍♀️

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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