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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.

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Zero configuration
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Built-in dev server with livereload

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What is Microbundle?

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

What is Parcel?

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

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What are some alternatives to Microbundle and Parcel?

rollup

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.

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.

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.

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.

Webpacker

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).

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