Compiling & bundling code
Link to sectionBuild Tools Ratios Over Time
Just like its sibling Vitest, Vite is also gaining market share at record speed. Also make sure to keep an eye on new entrants Rolldown and Rspack, who are both starting off very high in the charts.
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Link to sectionUsed at Work
Rspack has somehow found a way to buck the trend and jump right into being adopted by large companies, no doubt the result of its very smart strategy to become a drop-in replacement for webpack.
Which of these tools do you use in a professional context?
We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”
My 2024 Pick: Bluesky
With X's slow descent into madness, it felt like the front end community had been left without a home. So it's great to see so many of us finally converging towards a new platform in the form of Bluesky.
We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”
Sacha Greif
Maintainer, State of JS
Link to sectionNumber of Items
How many items in this category respondends have used (or heard of).
Link to sectionBuild Tools Happiness
On a scale of 0 (very unhappy) to 4 (very happy), how happy are you with the current state of build tools?
Link to sectionBuild Tools Pain Points
Excessive configuration has traditionally been the bane of build tools – yet it's also often that very complexity that makes them powerful.
What pain points have you encountered when using build tools?
Freeform
Link to sectionRecommended Resources
Steve Kinney
Temporal
Vite
Tour Vite's capabilities include bundling, optimizing static assets, hot module reloading, and its rich plugin ecosystem. Integrate Vite with popular frameworks like React and Svelte and leverage dynamic imports for code splitting.
Sean Larkin
Microsoft
Webpack 4 Fundamentals
Webpack enables you to integrate your favorite tools and take control of how you deliver your JavaScript, CSS, and more!
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