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Discontinued ESM-powered frontend build tool. Instant, lightweight, unbundled development. ✌️ [Moved to: https://github.com/FredKSchott/snowpack] (by withastro)
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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.
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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.
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tooling.report a quick way to determine the best build tool for your next web project, or if tooling migration is worth it, or how to adopt a tool's best practice into your existing configuration and code base.
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Snowpack is a relatively new build tool on the scene and also boasts faster build times over parcel and webpack. Like the other tools snowpack can be used with libraries like React and Vue as an alternative to the default cli tool.
Webpack is the most robust build tool on this list. Webpack has wide support for transformations such as dead code elimination, removing dead imported code and compressing images and svg. Webpack is also used by the angular CLI. However, webpack can be a bit daunting to pickup due to it's robustness.
This article is more an overview than a feature comparison. The Tooling Report is your best guide to understand of the features supported by some of the tools mentioned here.
ES Build describes itself as 'An extremely fast JavaScript bundler'. ES Build boats a 10-100x speed boost over other alternatives in terms of build times. ES Build supports ES6 and CommonJS modules.
Browserify started with the simple mission of allowing you to port your nodejs code to run in the browser. It can be used out of the box to compile a node script into a bundle that can be dropped into a web page. Browserify also supports other build tool features such as transformations and CSS & image imports.