Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
Microbundle vs Parcel: What are the differences?
Developers describe Microbundle as "Zero-configuration bundler for tiny modules". Zero-configuration bundler for tiny modules, powered by Rollup. On the other hand, Parcel is detailed as "📦🚀 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.
Microbundle and Parcel belong to "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Microbundle are:
- Bundles your library using nothing but a package.json
- Support for ESnext & async/await
- Supports multiple entry modules
On the other hand, Parcel provides the following key features:
- Blazing fast bundle times
- Bundle all your assets
- Automatic transforms
Microbundle and Parcel are both open source tools. Parcel with 32.3K GitHub stars and 1.47K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Microbundle with 3.72K GitHub stars and 168 GitHub forks.
Pros of Microbundle
- All the best Terser and Rollup settings already set1
- Works well with TypeScript1
Pros of Parcel
- Zero configuration10
- Built-in dev server with livereload8
Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions
Cons of Microbundle
Cons of Parcel
- Lack of documentation3
