Maid vs Webpacker: What are the differences?

Developers describe Maid as "Markdown driven task runner". Create a Maidfile and define bash or JavaScript tasks using Markdown. On the other hand, Webpacker is detailed as "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).

Maid and Webpacker belong to "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" category of the tech stack.

Maid and Webpacker are both open source tools. Webpacker with 4.29K GitHub stars and 893 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Maid with 1.95K GitHub stars and 48 GitHub forks.