BrunchWhat is Brunch?
Brunch is an assembler for HTML5 applications. It's agnostic to frameworks, libraries, programming, stylesheet & templating languages and backend technology.
Brunch is a tool in the Build Automation category of a tech stack.
Key Features
compiles your scripts, templates, styleslints themwraps the scripts and templates in common.js / AMD modules.concatenates scripts and stylesgenerates source maps for concatenated filescopies assets and static filesshrinks the output by minifying code and optimizing imageswatches your files for changesnotifies you about errors via console and system notifications
Brunch Pros & Cons
Pros of Brunch
- ✓Easy and awesome
- ✓Light Configuration
- ✓Ultra Fast
- ✓Built-in dev server with live reload
- ✓Simple to use
- ✓Has many pre-configurable framework "skeletons"
Cons of Brunch
No cons listed yet.
Brunch Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Brunch?
Webpack
A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows to load parts for the application on demand. Through "loaders" modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.
gulp
Build system automating tasks: minification and copying of all JavaScript files, static images. More capable of watching files to automatically rerun the task when a file changes.
Grunt
The less work you have to do when performing repetitive tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, linting, etc, the easier your job becomes. After you've configured it, a task runner can do most of that mundane work for you—and your team—with basically zero effort.
