In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the state of bundlers in 2020 — Rome, Snowpack, Parcel, Webpack, Rollup, Vite, and more!
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Show Notes
02:39 - What is a bundler?
- On the one hand, you can write HTML, CSS and JavaScript and open it in the browser
- On the other hand, your build could be super complex
03:24 - What goes into configuring a bundler?
- Templating language you use (Jsx, Pug, Vue, etc.)
- JavaScript you write and compile to:
- ES6/7/8/9
- Typescript
- CoffeeScript
- Polyfills
- Environmental variables
- CSS loading
- Image compression
- Asset Chunking
- Tree shaking
05:12 - Webpack
- Hardest to learn, most used currently
07:38 - Rollup
- Scott’s pick as best option for most features vs ease of use
- Very powerful
- Mmmr, tree shaking, plugins, esm
09:52 - Parcel
- Scott’s simplicity winner pick
- Easiest to get started with
- It’s a bundler, but also a dev tool
- Config is done via your package.json
- Lots of plugins available
12:01 - Npm, Yarn and Yarn 2
- It’s a dependency installer rather than a bundler
13:27 - Snowpack
- Scott’s speed pick of the week
- Uses ESM by default
- Like Sonic after a triple shot of espresso
- HRM
- Perfect for dev builds, as well as production builds
15:51 - Isobuild / Meteor
- Scott’s underdog pick of the litter
16:48 - Rome
- Scott’s mystery pick of the week
- New tool to do it all
- Bundler, but also a linter
17:54 - Deno
- Linter
- Typescript formatter
- Bundler (bundle into a single .js file)
20:44 - Let your tool take care of it
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