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Grunt vs Metro Bundler: What are the differences?
Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner. The less work you have to do when performing repetitive tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, linting, etc, the easier your job becomes. After you've configured it, a task runner can do most of that mundane work for you—and your team—with basically zero effort; Metro Bundler: 🚇 The JavaScript bundler for React Native. 🚅 Fast: We aim for sub-second reload cycles, fast startup and quick bundling speeds ⚖️ Scalable: Works with thousands of modules in a single application. ⚛️ Integrated: Supports every React Native project out of the box..
Grunt and Metro Bundler can be primarily classified as "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" tools.
Grunt and Metro Bundler are both open source tools. It seems that Grunt with 11.9K GitHub stars and 1.55K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Metro Bundler with 3.1K GitHub stars and 344 GitHub forks.
Very simple to use and a great way to optimize repetitive tasks, like optimize PNG images, convert to WebP, create sprite images with CSS.
I didn't choose Grunt because of the fact it uses files and Gulp uses memory, making it faster for my use case since I need to work with 3000+ small images. And the fact Gulp has 32k+ stars on GitHub.
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- Configuration288
- Open source176
- Automation of minification and live reload166
- Great community60
- SASS compilation7
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- Poor mindshare/community support1
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