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Backpack vs Grunt: What are the differences?
Developers describe Backpack as "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. On the other hand, Grunt is detailed as "The JavaScript Task Runner". 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.
Backpack and Grunt belong to "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" category of the tech stack.
"Great docs" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Backpack, while over 287 developers mention "Configuration " as the leading cause for choosing Grunt.
Backpack and Grunt are both open source tools. Grunt with 11.9K GitHub stars and 1.55K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Backpack with 4.14K GitHub stars and 174 GitHub forks.
Very simple to use and a great way to optimize repetitive tasks, like optimize PNG images, convert to WebP, create sprite images with CSS.
I didn't choose Grunt because of the fact it uses files and Gulp uses memory, making it faster for my use case since I need to work with 3000+ small images. And the fact Gulp has 32k+ stars on GitHub.
Pros of Backpack
- Great docs6
- Zero-config4
- Easy setup4
Pros of Grunt
- Configuration288
- Open source176
- Automation of minification and live reload166
- Great community60
- SASS compilation7
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Cons of Grunt
- Poor mindshare/community support1
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