Rome vs Webpacker

Overview

Webpacker

Stacks204

Followers48

Votes0

GitHub Stars5.3K

Forks1.5K

Rome

Stacks26

Followers12

Votes0

GitHub Stars23.6K

Forks650

Webpacker vs Rome : What are the differences?

Developers describe Webpacker as "Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails (by Rails)". Webpacker makes it easy to use the JavaScript preprocessor and bundler Webpack to manage application-like JavaScript in Rails. It coexists with the asset pipeline, as the purpose is only to use Webpack for app-like JavaScript, not images, css, or even JavaScript Sprinkles (that all continues to live in app/assets). On the other hand, **Rome ** is detailed as "All in one JS toolchain (By Facebook)". It is an experimental JavaScript toolchain. It includes a compiler, linter, formatter, bundler, testing framework and more. It aims to be a comprehensive tool for anything related to the processing of JavaScript source code.

Webpacker can be classified as a tool in the "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" category, while Rome is grouped under "Javascript Utilities & Libraries".

Webpacker and Rome are both open source tools. It seems that Rome with 7.96K GitHub stars and 254 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Webpacker with 4.72K GitHub stars and 1.19K GitHub forks.

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Webpacker	Rome
Webpacker makes it easy to use the JavaScript preprocessor and bundler Webpack to manage application-like JavaScript in Rails. It coexists with the asset pipeline, as the purpose is only to use Webpack for app-like JavaScript, not images, css, or even JavaScript Sprinkles (that all continues to live in app/assets).	It is an experimental JavaScript toolchain. It includes a compiler, linter, formatter, bundler, testing framework and more. It aims to be a comprehensive tool for anything related to the processing of JavaScript source code.
-	Open Source; Compiler; Linter; Formatter; Bundler; Testing framework
Statistics
GitHub Stars 5.3K	GitHub Stars 23.6K
GitHub Forks 1.5K	GitHub Forks 650
Stacks 204	Stacks 26
Followers 48	Followers 12
Votes 0	Votes 0
Integrations
Rails Webpack	JavaScript

What are some alternatives to Webpacker, Rome ?

gulp

Build system automating tasks: minification and copying of all JavaScript files, static images. More capable of watching files to automatically rerun the task when a file changes.

Webpack

A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows to load parts for the application on demand. Through "loaders" modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.

Grunt

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.

Babel

Babel will turn your ES6+ code into ES5 friendly code, so you can start using it right now without waiting for browser support.

Underscore

A JavaScript library that provides a whole mess of useful functional programming helpers without extending any built-in objects.

Deno

It is a secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript built with V8, Rust, and Tokio.

Chart.js

Visualize your data in 6 different ways. Each of them animated, with a load of customisation options and interactivity extensions.

Brunch

Brunch is an assembler for HTML5 applications. It's agnostic to frameworks, libraries, programming, stylesheet & templating languages and backend technology.

Parcel

Parcel is a web application bundler, differentiated by its developer experience. It offers blazing fast performance utilizing multicore processing, and requires zero configuration.

rollup

It is a module bundler for JavaScript which compiles small pieces of code into something larger and more complex, such as a library or application. It uses the new standardized format for code modules included in the ES6 revision of JavaScript, instead of previous idiosyncratic solutions such as CommonJS and AMD.