Brunch vs rollup

Overview

Brunch

Stacks106

Followers127

Votes40

GitHub Stars6.8K

Forks431

rollup

Stacks2.4K

Followers164

Votes17

Brunch vs rollup: What are the differences?

Brunch: Ultra-fast HTML5 build tool. Brunch is an assembler for HTML5 applications. It's agnostic to frameworks, libraries, programming, stylesheet & templating languages and backend technology; rollup: The next-generation JavaScript module bundler. It is a module bundler for JavaScript which compiles small pieces of code into something larger and more complex, such as a library or application. It uses the new standardized format for code modules included in the ES6 revision of JavaScript, instead of previous idiosyncratic solutions such as CommonJS and AMD.

Brunch and rollup can be categorized as "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" tools.

Brunch is an open source tool with 6.58K GitHub stars and 461 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Brunch's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Brunch has a broader approval, being mentioned in 14 company stacks & 9 developers stacks; compared to rollup, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Advice on Brunch, rollup

Abigail

Dec 10, 2019

Decided

We mostly use rollup to publish package onto NPM. For most all other use cases, we use the Meteor build tool (probably 99% of the time) for publishing packages. If you're using Node on FHIR you probably won't need to know rollup, unless you are somehow working on helping us publish front end user interface components using FHIR. That being said, we have been migrating away from Atmosphere package manager towards NPM. As we continue to migrate away, we may publish other NPM packages using rollup.

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Detailed Comparison

Brunch	rollup
Brunch is an assembler for HTML5 applications. It's agnostic to frameworks, libraries, programming, stylesheet & templating languages and backend technology.	It is a module bundler for JavaScript which compiles small pieces of code into something larger and more complex, such as a library or application. It uses the new standardized format for code modules included in the ES6 revision of JavaScript, instead of previous idiosyncratic solutions such as CommonJS and AMD.
compiles your scripts, templates, styleslints them;wraps the scripts and templates in common.js / AMD modules.concatenates scripts and styles;generates source maps for concatenated filescopies assets and static files;shrinks the output by minifying code and optimizing imageswatches your files for changes;notifies you about errors via console and system notifications	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars 6.8K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 431	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 106	Stacks 2.4K
Followers 127	Followers 164
Votes 40	Votes 17
Pros & Cons
Pros 13 Easy and awesome 9 Light Configuration 9 Ultra Fast 4 Built-in dev server with live reload 3 Simple to use	Pros 4 Makes it easy to publish packages 3 Easier configuration 2 Better tree shaking 2 Provides smaller bundle size 1 Integrates seamlessly with SystemJS Cons 1 Manual Chunking is a bit buggy 1 Almost everything needs to be a Plugin 1 No Loader like Webpack (need to use sjs or ESM imports) 1 No clear path for static assets

What are some alternatives to Brunch, rollup?

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.

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.

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.

Parcel

Parcel is a web application bundler, differentiated by its developer experience. It offers blazing fast performance utilizing multicore processing, and requires zero configuration.

Backpack

Backpack is minimalistic build system for Node.js. Inspired by Facebook's create-react-app, Zeit's Next.js, and Remy's Nodemon, Backpack lets you create modern Node.js apps and services with zero configuration. Backpack handles all the file-watching, live-reloading, transpiling, and bundling, so you don't have to.

Vite

It is an opinionated web dev build tool that serves your code via native ES Module imports during dev and bundles it with Rollup for production.

Pingy CLI

Gulp and Grunt and other heavyweight build tools are great for complicated build workflows. Sometimes you want something simpler that doesn't take lots of configuration to get up and running. That's Pingy CLI.

Microbundle

Zero-configuration bundler for tiny modules, powered by Rollup.

System.js

It is a Universal Module Loader for JavaScript. If you've used RequireJs or a CommonJs bundler in the past, you have probably created modules.Configurable module loader enabling dynamic ES module workflows in browsers and NodeJS.

Esbuild

It is an extremely fast JavaScript and CSS bundler and minifier. Current build tools for the web are 10-100x slower than they could be. The main goal of this project is to bring about a new era of build tool performance, and create an easy-to-use modern bundler along the way.

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Brunch is an open source tool with 6.58K GitHub stars and 461 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Brunch's open source repository on GitHub.

Brunch vs rollup