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Backpack vs gulp: What are the differences?
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; gulp: The streaming build system. 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.
Backpack and gulp 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 "Build speed" was stated as the key factor in picking gulp.
Backpack and gulp are both open source tools. gulp with 31.3K GitHub stars and 4.41K 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 docs5
- Zero-config4
- Easy setup4
Pros of gulp
- Build speed454
- Readable277
- Code-over-configuration244
- Open source210
- Node streams175
- Intuitive107
- Lots of plugins84
- Works great with browserify66
- Easy to Learn45
- Laravel-elixir17
- build workflow4
- Great community3
- Simple & flexible3
- Stylus intergration2
- jade intergration2
- Well documented0
- Clean Code0
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gulpGulp is a new build system which shows a lot of promise. The use of streams and code-over-configuration makes for a simpler and more intuitive build. There isn't much boilerplate code so you're able to roll your own asset pipeline. Even if you don't know node.js streams, gulp is pretty readable and easier to understand.
PS: It's worth saying if you know Grunt then you can learn Gulp in a day.
gulpGulp is used as the build system for Cloudcraft.co with a lot of custom targets: vendoring dependencies, transpiling ES2015 to Ecmascript5 (with Babel), incremental compilation of multiple watched modules, minification, creation of app distribution packages etc. Having previously used Grunt, I've come to greatly prefer Gulp due to the ability to easily write my own tasks using plain JS without necessarily relying on plugins for everything.
gulpgulp is used to package our plugins for the WSC (Woltlab Suite Core) in a fast, convenient and code-driven way. We enjoy the comfort it offers with stuff like the gzip-plugin or tar-packing.
gulpFor all our frontend site builds, Grunt allows us to do one-click builds for SASS, Coffeescript and other tools, with minifying and general restructuring built right in.
gulpgulp is a fancy alternative to grunt (that we don't use anymore). Just use async/await instead of "stream" everything (which is a nonsens). We don't use gulp.
gulpIf a project has a more complex build, gulp allows us to build a flexible build pipeline and automatically rebuild on files changes. Speeds up JS development.