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  5. Flow (JS) vs rollup

Flow (JS) vs rollup

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Overview

rollup
rollup
Stacks2.4K
Followers164
Votes17
Flow (JS)
Flow (JS)
Stacks145
Followers75
Votes0
GitHub Stars22.2K
Forks1.9K

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rollup
rollup
Flow (JS)
Flow (JS)

It is a module bundler for JavaScript which compiles small pieces of code into something larger and more complex, such as a library or application. It uses the new standardized format for code modules included in the ES6 revision of JavaScript, instead of previous idiosyncratic solutions such as CommonJS and AMD.

Flow is a static type checker for Javascript created by Facebook.

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Type Inference; Easy Integration; Realtime Feedback
Statistics
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
22.2K
GitHub Forks
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GitHub Forks
1.9K
Stacks
2.4K
Stacks
145
Followers
164
Followers
75
Votes
17
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 4
    Makes it easy to publish packages
  • 3
    Easier configuration
  • 2
    Provides smaller bundle size
  • 2
    Better tree shaking
  • 1
    Integrates seamlessly with SystemJS
Cons
  • 1
    Manual Chunking is a bit buggy
  • 1
    Almost everything needs to be a Plugin
  • 1
    No Loader like Webpack (need to use sjs or ESM imports)
  • 1
    No clear path for static assets
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What are some alternatives to rollup, Flow (JS)?

gulp

gulp

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.

CoffeeScript

CoffeeScript

It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. Specific additional features include list comprehension and de-structuring assignment.

Webpack

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.

Grunt

Grunt

The less work you have to do when performing repetitive tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, linting, etc, the easier your job becomes. After you've configured it, a task runner can do most of that mundane work for you—and your team—with basically zero effort.

TypeScript

TypeScript

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

Pug

Pug

This project was formerly known as "Jade." Pug is a high performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for Node.js and browsers.

Handlebars.js

Handlebars.js

Handlebars.js is an extension to the Mustache templating language created by Chris Wanstrath. Handlebars.js and Mustache are both logicless templating languages that keep the view and the code separated like we all know they should be.

Mustache

Mustache

Mustache is a logic-less template syntax. It can be used for HTML, config files, source code - anything. It works by expanding tags in a template using values provided in a hash or object. We call it "logic-less" because there are no if statements, else clauses, or for loops. Instead there are only tags. Some tags are replaced with a value, some nothing, and others a series of values.

Slim Lang

Slim Lang

Slim is a template language whose goal is to reduce the view syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic. It started as an exercise to see how much could be removed from a standard html template (<, >, closing tags, etc...). As more people took an interest in Slim, the functionality grew and so did the flexibility of the syntax.

Brunch

Brunch

Brunch is an assembler for HTML5 applications. It's agnostic to frameworks, libraries, programming, stylesheet & templating languages and backend technology.

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