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Brunch vs Microbundle: What are the differences?
Brunch: 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; Microbundle: Zero-configuration bundler for tiny modules. Zero-configuration bundler for tiny modules, powered by Rollup.
Brunch and Microbundle 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, Microbundle provides the following key features:
- Bundles your library using nothing but a package.json
- Support for ESnext & async/await
- Supports multiple entry modules
Brunch and Microbundle are both open source tools. It seems that Brunch with 6.58K GitHub stars and 461 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Microbundle with 3.72K GitHub stars and 168 GitHub forks.
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 Microbundle
- All the best Terser and Rollup settings already set1
- Works well with TypeScript1
