The Battle of the Bundlers

When it comes to JavaScript bundlers, there are a LOT of choices out there. Once upon a time, all we had was browserify and Gulp. Then there was the Webpack era. Now, absolute insanity.

• parcel - Parcel 2 uses Rust to make itself super fast
• vite - Uses Golang to make itself super fast. Doesn’t accept jsx in .js files.
• mako
• rollup
• wmr - smol
• snowpack
• rome - not just a bundler, but, like, everything.
• turbopack - from vercel.
• bun - made with zig. not really a bundler but a JS runtime that can also bundle stuff.

I’ll update this list as more become available.