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Ask HN: JavaScript bundlers overflow (webpack, browserify, gulp, rollup js?)
This may be more of a rant. I thought that webpack is the new thing for bundlers and while I was learning it, I found out something called rollup js. So webpack is not the latest anymore ? Anyone worked with rollup js ?
- acemarke 10y agoWebpack and Rollup are similar, but are best for slightly different use cases. Rollup, as far as I know, is best when you're trying to bundle just ES6 modules. Webpack supports a much wider variety of input formats, both built-in (CJS/AMD/ES6 modules) and through loaders. At the moment, Webpack appears to be the most-used bundling tool for modern web apps. Rollup does produce smaller output, and seems to possibly be a better choice if you're developing a library rather than an application. There are discussions going on about trying to leverage some of Rollup's capabilities in Webpack to get the best of both worlds.