Hasty Treat - Bundlers in 2020

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 Hot reload Local server 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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