Description
Fast front-end web app build tool with simple declarative config, seamless incremental compilation for rapid development, an opinionated pipeline and workflow, and core support for source maps
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webpack
A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff. -
Snowpack
ESM-powered frontend build tool. Instant, lightweight, unbundled development. ✌️ [Moved to: https://github.com/FredKSchott/snowpack] -
FuseBox
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Broccoli
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Brunch

Web applications made easy. Since 2011.
Fast front-end web app build tool with simple declarative config and seamless incremental compilation for rapid development.
Usage
Install Brunch with a simple node.js package manager command:
npm install -g brunch
- Create a new Brunch project:
brunch new [--skeleton url]
- skeleton specifies a skeleton from which your application will be initialized. The default skeleton (dead-simple) doesn't have any opinions about frameworks or libraries.
- brunch.io/skeletons contains over 50 boilerplate projects, which you can use to init your app from.
- Develop with Brunch:
brunch watch --server
- tells Brunch to watch your project and incrementally rebuild it when source files are changed. The optional server flag launches a simple web server with push state support.
- Deploy with Brunch:
brunch build --production
- builds a project for distribution. By default it enables minification.
Learn
- Visit brunch.io
- Read brunch docs
- Follow us on Twitter: @brunch
- Ask questions on Stack Overflow with #brunch tag
Contributing
See the CONTRIBUTING.md document for more info on how to file issues or get your head into the Brunch's internals.
- To install edge version (from GitHub
master
branch):npm install -g brunch/brunch
- To enable debug mode, simply pass
-d
flag to any command like that:brunch build -d
- To create your own plugin, check out our plugin boilerplate as a starting point.
License
MIT license (c) 2021 Paul Miller paulmillr.com, Elan Shanker, Nik Graf, Thomas Schranz, Allan Berger, Jan Monschke, Martin Schürrer
See LICENSE file.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Brunch README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.