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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.

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Pros of Backpack
Pros of Microbundle
  • 6
    Great docs
  • 4
    Zero-config
  • 4
    Easy setup
  • 1
    All the best Terser and Rollup settings already set
  • 1
    Works well with TypeScript

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What is Backpack?

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, powered by Rollup.

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    What are some alternatives to Backpack and Microbundle?
    Webpack
    A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows to load parts for the application on demand. Through "loaders" modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.
    gulp
    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.
    Grunt
    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.
    rollup
    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.
    Vite
    It is an opinionated web dev build tool that serves your code via native ES Module imports during dev and bundles it with Rollup for production.
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