Metro Bundler vs rollup

Overview

rollup

Stacks2.4K

Followers164

Votes17

Metro Bundler

Stacks13

Followers32

Votes0

Metro Bundler vs rollup: What are the differences?

Metro Bundler: 🚇 The JavaScript bundler for React Native. 🚅 Fast: We aim for sub-second reload cycles, fast startup and quick bundling speeds ⚖️ Scalable: Works with thousands of modules in a single application. ⚛️ Integrated: Supports every React Native project out of the box.; rollup: The next-generation JavaScript module bundler. 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.

Metro Bundler and rollup belong to "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" category of the tech stack.

Metro Bundler is an open source tool with 3.1K GitHub stars and 344 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Metro Bundler's open source repository on GitHub.

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Advice on rollup, Metro Bundler

Abigail

Dec 10, 2019

Decided

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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Detailed Comparison

rollup	Metro Bundler
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.	🚅 Fast: We aim for sub-second reload cycles, fast startup and quick bundling speeds. ⚖️ Scalable: Works with thousands of modules in a single application. ⚛️ Integrated: Supports every React Native project out of the box.
Statistics
Stacks 2.4K	Stacks 13
Followers 164	Followers 32
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	No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available	React Native JavaScript

What are some alternatives to rollup, Metro Bundler?

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.

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

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.

Brunch

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

Parcel

Parcel is a web application bundler, differentiated by its developer experience. It offers blazing fast performance utilizing multicore processing, and requires zero configuration.

Backpack

Backpack is minimalistic build system for Node.js. Inspired by Facebook's create-react-app, Zeit's Next.js, and Remy's Nodemon, Backpack lets you create modern Node.js apps and services with zero configuration. Backpack handles all the file-watching, live-reloading, transpiling, and bundling, so you don't have to.

Vite

It is an opinionated web dev build tool that serves your code via native ES Module imports during dev and bundles it with Rollup for production.

Pingy CLI

Gulp and Grunt and other heavyweight build tools are great for complicated build workflows. Sometimes you want something simpler that doesn't take lots of configuration to get up and running. That's Pingy CLI.

Microbundle

Zero-configuration bundler for tiny modules, powered by Rollup.

System.js

It is a Universal Module Loader for JavaScript. If you've used RequireJs or a CommonJs bundler in the past, you have probably created modules.Configurable module loader enabling dynamic ES module workflows in browsers and NodeJS.

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Metro Bundler is an open source tool with 3.1K GitHub stars and 344 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Metro Bundler's open source repository on GitHub.

Metro Bundler vs rollup