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Backpack vs Brunch: What are the differences?
What is Backpack? Build Node.js backends with Webpack. 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.
What is 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.
Backpack and Brunch can be categorized as "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" tools.
"Great docs" is the primary reason why developers consider Backpack over the competitors, whereas "Easy and awesome" was stated as the key factor in picking Brunch.
Backpack and Brunch are both open source tools. It seems that Brunch with 6.58K GitHub stars and 461 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Backpack with 4.14K GitHub stars and 174 GitHub forks.
Pros of Backpack
- Great docs6
- Zero-config4
- Easy setup4
Pros of Brunch
- Easy and awesome13
- Ultra Fast9
- Light Configuration9
- Built-in dev server with live reload4
- Simple to use3
- Has many pre-configurable framework "skeletons"2