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Grunt vs Webpacker: What are the differences?
What is Grunt? The JavaScript Task Runner. 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.
What is Webpacker? 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).
Grunt and Webpacker can be primarily classified as "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" tools.
Grunt and Webpacker are both open source tools. It seems that Grunt with 11.9K GitHub stars and 1.55K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Webpacker with 4.29K GitHub stars and 893 GitHub forks.
Medium, Twitter, and Udemy are some of the popular companies that use Grunt, whereas Webpacker is used by Cambridge Brain Sciences, JetThoughts LLC, and Gratify Commerce. Grunt has a broader approval, being mentioned in 796 company stacks & 429 developers stacks; compared to Webpacker, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 5 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.
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- Open source176
- Automation of minification and live reload166
- Great community60
- SASS compilation7
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