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gulp vs Parcel: What are the differences?
What is gulp? The streaming build system. 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.
What is Parcel? 📦🚀 A fast, zero configuration web application bundler. Parcel is a web application bundler, differentiated by its developer experience. It offers blazing fast performance utilizing multicore processing, and requires zero configuration.
gulp and Parcel can be categorized as "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" tools.
Some of the features offered by gulp are:
- By preferring code over configuration, gulp keeps simple things simple and makes complex tasks manageable.
- By harnessing the power of node's streams you get fast builds that don't write intermediary files to disk.
- gulp's strict plugin guidelines assure plugins stay simple and work the way you expect.
On the other hand, Parcel provides the following key features:
- Blazing fast bundle times
- Bundle all your assets
- Automatic transforms
gulp and Parcel are both open source tools. It seems that Parcel with 32.1K GitHub stars and 1.46K forks on GitHub has more adoption than gulp with 31.3K GitHub stars and 4.4K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, gulp has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1158 company stacks & 689 developers stacks; compared to Parcel, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.
Very simple to use and a great way to optimize repetitive tasks, like optimize PNG images, convert to WebP, create sprite images with CSS.
I didn't choose Grunt because of the fact it uses files and Gulp uses memory, making it faster for my use case since I need to work with 3000+ small images. And the fact Gulp has 32k+ stars on GitHub.
Pros of gulp
- Build speed454
- Readable277
- Code-over-configuration244
- Open source210
- Node streams175
- Intuitive107
- Lots of plugins84
- Works great with browserify66
- Easy to Learn45
- Laravel-elixir17
- build workflow4
- Great community3
- Simple & flexible3
- Stylus intergration2
- jade intergration2
- Well documented0
- Clean Code0
Pros of Parcel
- Zero configuration10
- Built-in dev server with livereload8
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Cons of gulp
Cons of Parcel
- Lack of documentation3
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