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Newly Refactored Vue.js Builder Vite 2.0 Still Focuses on Speed; Is Now Framework-Agnostic
Evan You, the creator of the Vue.js front-end framework, recently released a new major iteration of Vite, a build tool that focuses on build speed and short feedback loops. Vite 2.0 is a complete refactoring of the previous version around a framework-agnostic core. Vite 2.0 features a new plugin format and improved programmatic API that strive to make it easy to build new tools on top of Vite.
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The Preact Team Releases WMR to Simplify Modern Web App Development
Jason Miller, creator of 3KB Preact alternative to React, recently released WMR, a *tiny all-in-one development tool for modern web apps*. WMR, in a single 2MB file with no dependencies, supports importing npm packages without prior installation, and many of the productivity and production features customary to developers (e.g, hot module reloading, JSX, CSS modules, TypeScript, and more).
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Snowpack 3 Build Tool Further Streamlines Modern Front-End Development
The third major iteration of the Snowpack front-end build tool was recently shipped with pre-bundled streaming imports, integrated build optimizations, and JavaScript/Node APIs. Snowpack 3 won the 2020 JS Open Source’s developer productivity boost award and ranks at the top of developer interest and satisfaction in the 2020 State of JS survey.
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New Rust-Based JavaScript Tool Manager to Simplify CLI Management with Global Installs
Volta, a new JavaScript tool manager, recently released its first stable version. Volta installs CLI tools globally while locally storing version information. Like nvm for Node, Volta enables having multiple versions of the same tool installed, without having to worry about switching versions when switching projects. Rust-based Volta ships as a native, fast binary with no external dependencies.
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Import Maps - Guy Bedford at ESNEXT 2020
Guy Bedford, core contributor and creator of the dynamic module loader system.js, discussed the workflows enabled by import maps. In his talk at ESNEXT this year, Bedford took a historical view while introducing the motivation behind the import map proposal, and linked the feature with the package entry points used in the latest version of node.
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Webpack vs. Rollup vs. Parcel vs. Browserify: a Detailed Benchmark
The Google's web.dev team recently released a detailed benchmark comparing popular web application bundlers. The first release tests the browserify, parcel, rollup, and webpack bundlers across six dimensions and 61 feature tests. The benchmark aims at giving developers a relevant and structured comparison basis from which to pick a bundler that fits the specific needs of a given project.
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Esbuild JavaScript Bundler Claims 10-100x Faster Bundling Time
esbuild, a JavaScript bundler and minifier, seeks to bring order-of-magnitude speed improvements in the JavaScript bundling and minification process. esbuild achieves its speed by being written in Go compiled to native code, parallelizing tasks to leverage multi-core processors , and minimizing data transformations.
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Babel 7.10 Ships with Better React Tree-Shaking
The Babel team recently released Babel 7.10 with better tree-shaking support for React code. Babel 7.10 additionally supports checking the existence of specific private fields in objects and provides better ergonomics for the optional chaining ?. operator.
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Snowpack 2.0 Launches O(1) Build System to Speed up Web Development
The pika team released the second major iteration of Snowpack. Snowpack 2.0 self-describes as a build system for the modern web and claims start-up times below 50ms even in large projects. Snowpack 2.0 achieves its speed by eschewing bundles during development. Bundles may still be generated for production.
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Facebook Introduces Rome Experimental JavaScript Toolchain
Rome is an experimental JavaScript toolchain created by Babel and yarn creator Sebastian McKenzie and the React Native team at Facebook. Rome includes a compiler, linter, formatter, bundler, and testing framework, aiming to be "a comprehensive tool for anything related to the processing of JavaScript source code."
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Web Packaging Proposal to Enable Offline Distribution, Installation and Usage of PWAs and Websites
The Web Packaging proposal was recently published by the Web Platform Incubator Community Group (WICG). Web Bundles, more formally known as Bundled HTTP Exchanges, are a key part of the packaging proposal and seek to address the offline distribution, installation, and consumption of web resources.
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Snowpack Releases 1.0, Seeks to Speed Up App Development by Removing the Need for Bundlers
The Pika package registry recently released the first major version of Snowpack. Snowpack seeks to streamline the developer experience by leveraging web standards and modern browsers. Developers who restricts themselves to using ES modules, and standard features of the JavaScript language may no longer need to go through an often complex build chain to build, run and debug their applications.
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Pika Brings Zero-Configuration Bundling and Publishing for NPM Packages
Pika revisits the discovery, bundling, packaging, and publishing of modern web applications. Its discovery module exposes an online search interface retrieving exclusively ECMAScript module-based packages (ES Module or ESM) published on npm. Its configuration-free packaging module builds, bundles and packages applications optimized for consumption in modern browsers and Node.js environments.
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Rollup 1.0 Brings Code-Splitting to Library Bundling
Rollup recently released its first major iteration. Rollup 1.0 enables developers to code-split their library bundle. Libraries can thus expose several import targets with optimized bundles.