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Backpack vs Microbundle: 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 Microbundle? Zero-configuration bundler for tiny modules. Zero-configuration bundler for tiny modules, powered by Rollup.
Backpack and Microbundle belong to "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" category of the tech stack.
Backpack and Microbundle are both open source tools. It seems that Backpack with 4.14K GitHub stars and 174 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Microbundle with 3.72K GitHub stars and 168 GitHub forks.
Pros of Backpack
- Great docs6
- Zero-config4
- Easy setup4
Pros of Microbundle
- All the best Terser and Rollup settings already set1
- Works well with TypeScript1