Brunch vs Webpacker: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is Webpacker? Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails (by Rails). Webpacker makes it easy to use the JavaScript preprocessor and bundler Webpack to manage application-like JavaScript in Rails. It coexists with the asset pipeline, as the purpose is only to use Webpack for app-like JavaScript, not images, css, or even JavaScript Sprinkles (that all continues to live in app/assets).

Brunch and Webpacker can be primarily classified as "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" tools.

Brunch and Webpacker are both open source tools. Brunch with 6.58K GitHub stars and 461 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Webpacker with 4.29K GitHub stars and 893 GitHub forks.

Uber Technologies, CodeCombat, and Blossom are some of the popular companies that use Brunch, whereas Webpacker is used by Cambridge Brain Sciences, JetThoughts LLC, and Gratify Commerce. Brunch has a broader approval, being mentioned in 14 company stacks & 9 developers stacks; compared to Webpacker, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.