#bundler
SubscribeA bundler is a tool that helps to simplify the process of managing and organizing JavaScript modules. It allows developers to combine multiple separate JavaScript files into one bundle file, which can then be included in an HTML page. This makes it easier to manage code, as well as reducing the number of requests the browser needs to make when loading a page. Bundlers also provide features like minification, transpilation, and tree-shaking, making it easier for developers to write modern JavaScript code and optimize their applications for performance.
The Core of Turbopack Explained (Live Coding)
JSNation 2023
29 min
The Core of Turbopack Explained (Live Coding)
Tobias Koppers introduces TurboPack and TurboEngine, addressing the limitations of Webpack. He demonstrates live coding to showcase the optimization of cache validation and build efficiency. The talk covers adding logging and memorization, optimizing execution and tracking dependencies, implementing invalidation and watcher, and storing and deleting invalidators. It also discusses incremental compilation, integration with other monorepo tools, error display, and the possibility of a plugin system for Toolpag. Lastly, the comparison with Bunn's Builder is mentioned.
Challenges for Incremental Production Optimizations
JSNation 2024
32 min
Challenges for Incremental Production Optimizations
TurboPack is a new bundle similar to Webpack, focusing on incremental builds to make them as fast as possible. Challenges in production builds include persistent caching, incremental algorithms, and optimizing export usage. The compilation process can be split into parsing and transforming modules, and chunking the module graph. TurboPack aims to achieve faster production builds through incremental optimization and efficiency. Collaboration and compatibility with other ecosystems are being considered, along with the design of a plugin interface and tree-shaking optimization.
Rome, a Modern Toolchain!
JSNation 2023
31 min
Rome, a Modern Toolchain!
Top ContentRome is a toolchain built in Rust that aims to replace multiple tools and provide high-quality diagnostics for code maintenance. It simplifies tool interactions by performing all operations once, generating a shared structure for all tools. Rome offers a customizable format experience with a stable formatter and a linter with over 150 rules. It integrates with VCS and VLSP, supports error-resilient parsing, and has exciting plans for the future, including the ability to create JavaScript plugins. Rome aims to be a top-notch toolchain and welcomes community input to improve its work.
Server Components with Bun
Node Congress 2023
7 min
Server Components with Bun
Top ContentBun is a modern JavaScript runtime environment that combines a bundler, transpiler, package manager, and runtime. It offers faster installation of NPM packages and execution of package.json scripts. Bun introduces a new JavaScript and TypeScript bundler with built-in support for server components, enabling easy RPC with the client. This allows for code splitting and running code that streamingly renders React or any other library from the server and mixes it with client code, resulting in less JavaScript sent to the client.
Parcel 2: the Automagical Bundler
DevOps.js Conf 2021
8 min
Parcel 2: the Automagical Bundler
Parcel 2 is a ground-up rewrite of Parcel 1, a fast and scalable zero-configuration web application bundler used by large companies like Atlassian and Adobe. It offers a zero-config approach with good defaults, making it production-ready out of the box. The new features include a revamped plugin system, a configuration file, transformers for file conversion, optimizers for code compression, target support for different browsers, diagnostics for error debugging, and named pipelines for data and JavaScript in different formats. Parcel 2 also supports different import scenarios, such as importing JSON files with named pipelines and using query parameters for image optimization. It includes various performance improvements, stable caches, optimized data structures, enhanced code splitting and bundling, improved scope hosting, and better support for monorepos and libraries. A React example is provided to showcase the simplicity of Parcel and how to use it with React.
Owning your Build-step – Owning your Code
DevOps.js Conf 2021
28 min
Owning your Build-step – Owning your Code
This Talk explores JavaScript code optimization using Rollup, showcasing examples of improved load times and reduced server size. It delves into Rollup customization and plugin development, demonstrating how to write plugins and remove code using hooks. The Talk also covers module code loading, advanced code control, and importing/emitting files with Rollup. Additionally, it highlights the adoption of Rollup's plugin system by other tools and introduces a self-made terminal used in the presentation.