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Brunch vs gulp: What are the differences?
Developers describe Brunch as "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. On the other hand, gulp is detailed as "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.
Brunch and gulp belong to "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Brunch are:
- compiles your scripts, templates, styleslints them
- wraps the scripts and templates in common.js / AMD modules.concatenates scripts and styles
- generates source maps for concatenated filescopies assets and static files
On the other hand, gulp provides the following key features:
- By preferring code over configuration, gulp keeps simple things simple and makes complex tasks manageable.
- By harnessing the power of node's streams you get fast builds that don't write intermediary files to disk.
- gulp's strict plugin guidelines assure plugins stay simple and work the way you expect.
"Easy and awesome" is the primary reason why developers consider Brunch over the competitors, whereas "Build speed" was stated as the key factor in picking gulp.
Brunch and gulp are both open source tools. It seems that gulp with 31.3K GitHub stars and 4.41K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Brunch with 6.58K GitHub stars and 461 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, gulp has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1163 company stacks & 705 developers stacks; compared to Brunch, which is listed in 14 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.
Hi, I am at a point when I discovered I need starter templates to kick off my web projects quickly and easily. I want to set-up my template code with the best or rather a packaging tool that is fast in compiling my Sass code and JS. Should I use gulp or Parcel or Webpack.
I need help please, A.S.A.P
Gulp is very old. I would not use it.
It all depends on what framework you are using. They usually come with a bundler. And templates often come with a bundler.
Webpack is the standard Webpack solution. But maybe complicated to use if it does not come with your template or framework. So you may wish to try Parcel first.
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 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
Pros of gulp
- Build speed451
- Readable277
- Code-over-configuration244
- Open source210
- Node streams175
- Intuitive107
- Lots of plugins83
- Works great with browserify66
- Easy to Learn45
- Laravel-elixir17
- build workflow4
- Simple & flexible3
- Great community3
- Stylus intergration2
- Clean Code2
- jade intergration2
- Well documented0
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