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Codeanywhere vs Webpack: What are the differences?
Developers describe Codeanywhere as "Online code editor, available on iOS, Android and more. Integrates with GitHub and Dropbox". A development platform that enables you to not only edit your files from underlying services like FTP, GitHub, Dropbox and the like, but on top of that gives you the ability to collaborate, embed and share through Codeanywhere on any device. On the other hand, Webpack is detailed as "A bundler for javascript and friends". 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.
Codeanywhere and Webpack are primarily classified as "Cloud IDE" and "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" tools respectively.
"Sleek interface" is the primary reason why developers consider Codeanywhere over the competitors, whereas "Most powerful bundler" was stated as the key factor in picking Webpack.
Webpack is an open source tool with 49.5K GitHub stars and 6.22K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Webpack's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Webpack has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2181 company stacks & 1298 developers stacks; compared to Codeanywhere, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
I could define the next points why we have to migrate:
- Decrease build time of our application. (It was the main cause).
- Also
jspm installtakes much more time thannpm install. - Many config files for SystemJS and JSPM. For Webpack you can use just one main config file, and you can use some separate config files for specific builds using inheritance and merge them.
We mostly use rollup to publish package onto NPM. For most all other use cases, we use the Meteor build tool (probably 99% of the time) for publishing packages. If you're using Node on FHIR you probably won't need to know rollup, unless you are somehow working on helping us publish front end user interface components using FHIR. That being said, we have been migrating away from Atmosphere package manager towards NPM. As we continue to migrate away, we may publish other NPM packages using rollup.
Pros of Codeanywhere
- Sleek interface17
- 3rd party integration16
- Easy to use13
- Web IDE11
- FTP support9
- Fast loading9
- Emmet7
- SSH Connections for free5
- Anywhere coding5
- Full root access5
- GitHub integration4
- Preconfigured development stacks4
- SFTP support4
- Private use for free4
- Easy setup3
- Amazon S3 Integration2
- Easy Setup, Containers2
- Code directly by FTP1
Pros of Webpack
- Most powerful bundler309
- Built-in dev server with livereload182
- Can handle all types of assets142
- Easy configuration87
- Laravel-mix22
- Overengineered, Underdeveloped4
- Makes it easy to bundle static assets2
- Webpack-Encore2
- Redundant1
- Better support in Browser Dev-Tools1
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Cons of Codeanywhere
Cons of Webpack
- Hard to configure15
- No clear direction5
- Spaghetti-Code out of the box2
- SystemJS integration is quite lackluster2
- Loader architecture is quite a mess (unreliable/buggy)2
- Fire and Forget mentality of Core-Developers2
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