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CodeMirror vs Webpack: What are the differences?
# Introduction
In this markdown content, we will outline key differences between CodeMirror and Webpack.
1. **Use Case**: CodeMirror is a versatile text editor component that can be easily embedded in web pages, while Webpack is a module bundler primarily used for JavaScript applications.
2. **Functionality**: CodeMirror provides a rich set of features for code editing such as syntax highlighting, line wrapping, and autocorrect, whereas Webpack focuses on bundling modules, optimizing assets, and managing dependencies.
3. **Language Support**: CodeMirror supports a wide range of programming languages out of the box with additional language modes available, whereas Webpack primarily works with JavaScript modules but can be configured to support other languages through loaders.
4. **Configuration Complexity**: CodeMirror requires minimal configuration to integrate into web applications, while Webpack's configuration can be complex due to its versatile nature and various options for optimization and customization.
5. **Real-time Editing**: CodeMirror allows for real-time editing and preview of code within the editor, whereas Webpack processes and bundles code during the build phase, requiring a separate development server for hot module replacement and real-time updates.
6. **Community and Ecosystem**: CodeMirror has a dedicated community focused on text editors and provides additional plugins and extensions for enhanced functionality, while Webpack has a larger ecosystem with plugins, loaders, and tools for optimizing and extending its capabilities.
In Summary, the key differences between CodeMirror and Webpack lie in their use case, functionality, language support, configuration complexity, real-time editing capabilities, and community ecosystem. Each tool serves different purposes in the web development workflow, with CodeMirror offering a versatile text editing experience and Webpack specializing in bundling modules and optimizing assets.
Decisions about CodeMirror and Webpack
Aleksandr Filatov
Contract Software Engineer - Microsoft · | 4 upvotes · 279.6K views
Why migrated?
I could define the next points why we have to migrate:
- Decrease build time of our application. (It was the main cause).
- Also
jspm install
takes 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.
Abigail Watson
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.
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Pros of CodeMirror
- Integrable in your application6
- Better content manipulation methods4
- Easy Custom Mode3
- JavaScript based1
- Easy setup1
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 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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What is CodeMirror?
CodeMirror is a JavaScript component that provides a code editor in the browser. When a mode is available for the language you are coding in, it will color your code, and optionally help with indentation.
What is 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.
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Ace
Ace is a standalone code editor written in JavaScript. Our goal is to create a browser based editor that matches and extends the features, usability and performance of existing native editors such as TextMate, Vim or Eclipse. It can be easily embedded in any web page or JavaScript application.
TinyMCE
It is the most advanced WYSWIYG HTML editor designed to simplify website content creation. The rich text editing platform that helped launch Atlassian, Medium, Evernote, and more.
Prism
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Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Sublime Text
Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses.
Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.