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! LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. 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 Gatsby (webpack) Next.js (webpack) Gridsome Create React App Vite (Rollup) Broccoli.js Links Babel Gulp Syntax 212: Pika Pkg Fred Schott Pika Rust Go Software Engineering Daily: Deno and TypeScript with Elio Rivero Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets.
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the state of bundlers in 2020 — Rome, Snowpack, Parcel, Webpack, Rollup, Vite, and more!
LogRocket - SponsorLogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax.
Show Notes02:39 - 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
- Gatsby (webpack)
- Next.js (webpack)
- Gridsome
- Create React App
- Vite (Rollup)
- Broccoli.js
- Babel
- Gulp
- Syntax 212: Pika Pkg
- Fred Schott
- Pika
- Rust
- Go
- Software Engineering Daily: Deno and TypeScript with Elio Rivero
- Scott’s Instagram
- LevelUpTutorials Instagram
- Wes’ Instagram
- Wes’ Twitter
- Wes’ Facebook
- Scott’s Twitter
- Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets