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Is this meant to replace Webpack + some list of plugins, does this get added to Webpack, or is this meant to go somewhere else entirely in the JS toolchain? If

Is this meant to replace Webpack + some list of plugins, does this get added to Webpack, or is this meant to go somewhere else entirely in the JS toolchain? If this replaces Webpack, can someone please list a combination of popular plugins that this compares to. (Or even a few lists - would it replace Grunt + something?) If not, can you tell me what other software this compares to, so that I can better understand it? I am sure that I am not the only one who has some familiarity, but doesn't live in the system. Having a point of comparison would be extremely helpful.

coolwhit 7y ago
The scope is even broader! Webpack is just a bundler. Rome is a bundler, linter, test runner, typescript compiler, and formatter. The proper comparison would be Webpack + ESLint + Jest + TSC + Prettier.
- sam_goody 7y ago
  Thank you! So, this is a bundler with built in plugins? Is there is a way to add Babel etc, that I would have used with Webpack? Does it handle CSS? And why would I prefer this over that chain (simpler to set up? Trust in Facebook over the people at js.foundation?)
  - snazz 7y ago
    The standard stack is unnecessarily complex and very difficult to security-audit. By not having any third-party dependencies, you don't need to trust thousands of individual developers to not have their NPM accounts compromised or to push something with a subtle security bug.
  - coolwhit 7y ago
    The selling point is that you don't need plugins at all. Rome is the entire toolchain in one tool. For example, you don't need to add Babel because Rome handles transpilation. The question is - will Rome perform as well as all the tools it intends to replace. Can it be a better Babel than Babel is? (There's a good chance it could since the creator of Rome is the creator of Babel)
    - ratww 7y ago
      I would bet on it performing better too, since Webpack/Babel/ESLint/TSC/Terser/Prettier all have to parse/process/pretty-print the code, using Javascript as the intermediate representation between each tool. That's very wasteful. With a unified tool you can use a single AST. Or even better: an intermediate representation. You only need to parse and pretty-print once.
  - yohannparis 7y ago
    It does not handle CSS, JavaScript only
    - deleted 7y ago
      [deleted]
seph-reed 7y ago
I've been using fuse-box for a while, and am not sure I could be much happier. It's a bundler with big dreams, but mostly it's just really fast and the devs are responsive.

coolwhit 7y ago

The scope is even broader! Webpack is just a bundler. Rome is a bundler, linter, test runner, typescript compiler, and formatter. The proper comparison would be Webpack + ESLint + Jest + TSC + Prettier.

sam_goody 7y ago
Thank you! So, this is a bundler with built in plugins? Is there is a way to add Babel etc, that I would have used with Webpack? Does it handle CSS? And why would I prefer this over that chain (simpler to set up? Trust in Facebook over the people at js.foundation?)
- snazz 7y ago
  The standard stack is unnecessarily complex and very difficult to security-audit. By not having any third-party dependencies, you don't need to trust thousands of individual developers to not have their NPM accounts compromised or to push something with a subtle security bug.
- coolwhit 7y ago
  The selling point is that you don't need plugins at all. Rome is the entire toolchain in one tool. For example, you don't need to add Babel because Rome handles transpilation. The question is - will Rome perform as well as all the tools it intends to replace. Can it be a better Babel than Babel is? (There's a good chance it could since the creator of Rome is the creator of Babel)
  - ratww 7y ago
    I would bet on it performing better too, since Webpack/Babel/ESLint/TSC/Terser/Prettier all have to parse/process/pretty-print the code, using Javascript as the intermediate representation between each tool. That's very wasteful. With a unified tool you can use a single AST. Or even better: an intermediate representation. You only need to parse and pretty-print once.
- yohannparis 7y ago
  It does not handle CSS, JavaScript only
  - deleted 7y ago
    [deleted]

seph-reed 7y ago

I've been using fuse-box for a while, and am not sure I could be much happier. It's a bundler with big dreams, but mostly it's just really fast and the devs are responsive.