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Angular CLI vs rollup: What are the differences?
Angular CLI: A command line interface for Angular. A command-line interface tool that you use to initialize, develop, scaffold, and maintain Angular applications. You can use the tool directly in a command shell, or indirectly through an interactive UI such as Angular Console; 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.
Angular CLI and rollup are primarily classified as "JavaScript Framework Components" and "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" tools respectively.
Angular CLI is an open source tool with 21.9K GitHub stars and 7.02K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Angular CLI's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Angular CLI has a broader approval, being mentioned in 8 company stacks & 18 developers stacks; compared to rollup, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
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.
Pros of Angular CLI
Pros of rollup
- Makes it easy to publish packages4
- Easier configuration3
- Better tree shaking2
- Provides smaller bundle size2
- Integrates seamlessly with SystemJS1
- Produces very clean code1
- Very reliable1
- Very robust Plugin-API (years old Plugins still work)1
- Very flexible1
- Was built with ESM-Modules in mind1
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Cons of Angular CLI
Cons of rollup
- No clear path for static assets1
- No Loader like Webpack (need to use sjs or ESM imports)1
- Almost everything needs to be a Plugin1
- Manual Chunking is a bit buggy1