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

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