Vue CLI vs Webpack

Overview

Webpack

Stacks45.0K

Followers28.1K

Votes752

GitHub Stars65.7K

Forks9.2K

Vue CLI

Stacks433

Followers471

Votes3

GitHub Stars29.7K

Forks6.3K

Vue CLI vs Webpack: What are the differences?

Vue CLI: Vue CLI is a command line interface tool that helps developers quickly scaffold and set up new Vue.js projects. It provides a pre-configured development environment with all the necessary build tools and plugins.
Webpack: Webpack is a module bundler that is primarily used to bundle JavaScript files and their dependencies into a single file. It allows developers to split their code into different modules and optimize the final bundle for performance.
Dependency Management: Vue CLI automatically manages project dependencies using npm or yarn, while Webpack requires developers to manually manage dependencies by specifying them in a separate configuration file.
Project Structure: Vue CLI follows a convention-based project structure with specific directories for components, assets, and views. It provides a standardized layout for Vue projects, making it easier for developers to navigate and understand the codebase. On the other hand, Webpack does not enforce any specific project structure and allows developers to organize their code according to their preferences.
Plugin Ecosystem: Vue CLI has a rich plugin ecosystem that allows developers to extend its functionality and add additional features to their projects. It provides a curated list of officially supported plugins that can be easily installed and configured. Webpack also supports plugins, but it requires developers to manually configure and install them.
Configurability: Vue CLI abstracts away the underlying Webpack configuration, providing developers with an opinionated and simplified development experience. It allows developers to override the default configuration by modifying a specific configuration file. Webpack, on the other hand, gives developers more control over the configuration process, allowing them to fine-tune every aspect of the bundling process.

In summary, Vue CLI is a command line interface tool that simplifies project setup and management for Vue.js projects, while Webpack is a module bundler that focuses on bundling JavaScript files and their dependencies. Vue CLI automatically manages dependencies, follows a convention-based project structure, has a rich plugin ecosystem, and provides a simplified development experience. Webpack requires manual dependency management, allows flexible project structure, supports plugins, and provides more control over the bundling process.

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Aleksandr

Contract Software Engineer - Microsoft at Microsoft-365

Dec 23, 2019

Decided

Why migrated?

I could define the next points why we have to migrate:

Decrease build time of our application. (It was the main cause).
Also jspm install takes much more time than npm install.
Many config files for SystemJS and JSPM. For Webpack you can use just one main config file, and you can use some separate config files for specific builds using inheritance and merge them.

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Abigail

Dec 10, 2019

Decided

We mostly use rollup to publish package onto NPM. For most all other use cases, we use the Meteor build tool (probably 99% of the time) for publishing packages. If you're using Node on FHIR you probably won't need to know rollup, unless you are somehow working on helping us publish front end user interface components using FHIR. That being said, we have been migrating away from Atmosphere package manager towards NPM. As we continue to migrate away, we may publish other NPM packages using rollup.

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Detailed Comparison

Webpack	Vue CLI
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.	Vue CLI aims to be the standard tooling baseline for the Vue ecosystem. It ensures the various build tools work smoothly together with sensible defaults so you can focus on writing your app instead of spending days wrangling with config.
Bundles ES Modules, CommonJS, and AMD modules (even combined); Can create a single bundle or multiple chunks that are asynchronously loaded at runtime (to reduce initial loading time); Dependencies are resolved during compilation, reducing the runtime size; Loaders can preprocess files while compiling, e.g. TypeScript to JavaScript, Handlebars strings to compiled functions, images to Base64, etc; Highly modular plugin system to do whatever else your application requires	Feature Rich - Out-of-the-box support for Babel, TypeScript, ESLint, PostCSS, PWA, Unit Testing & End-to-end Testing.; Extensible; No Need to Eject;Graphical User Interface;Instant Prototyping;Future Ready
Statistics
GitHub Stars 65.7K	GitHub Stars 29.7K
GitHub Forks 9.2K	GitHub Forks 6.3K
Stacks 45.0K	Stacks 433
Followers 28.1K	Followers 471
Votes 752	Votes 3
Pros & Cons
Pros 309 Most powerful bundler 182 Built-in dev server with livereload 142 Can handle all types of assets 87 Easy configuration 22 Laravel-mix Cons 15 Hard to configure 5 No clear direction 2 SystemJS integration is quite lackluster 2 Loader architecture is quite a mess (unreliable/buggy) 2 Fire and Forget mentality of Core-Developers	Pros 1 Detects and run npm tasks 1 GUI for installing dependencies 1 Visual Web Interface
Integrations
JavaScript	TypeScript Babel Apache Cordova ESLint

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Vue CLI vs Webpack: What are the differences?

Vue CLI: Vue CLI is a command line interface tool that helps developers quickly scaffold and set up new Vue.js projects. It provides a pre-configured development environment with all the necessary build tools and plugins.
Webpack: Webpack is a module bundler that is primarily used to bundle JavaScript files and their dependencies into a single file. It allows developers to split their code into different modules and optimize the final bundle for performance.
Dependency Management: Vue CLI automatically manages project dependencies using npm or yarn, while Webpack requires developers to manually manage dependencies by specifying them in a separate configuration file.
Project Structure: Vue CLI follows a convention-based project structure with specific directories for components, assets, and views. It provides a standardized layout for Vue projects, making it easier for developers to navigate and understand the codebase. On the other hand, Webpack does not enforce any specific project structure and allows developers to organize their code according to their preferences.
Plugin Ecosystem: Vue CLI has a rich plugin ecosystem that allows developers to extend its functionality and add additional features to their projects. It provides a curated list of officially supported plugins that can be easily installed and configured. Webpack also supports plugins, but it requires developers to manually configure and install them.
Configurability: Vue CLI abstracts away the underlying Webpack configuration, providing developers with an opinionated and simplified development experience. It allows developers to override the default configuration by modifying a specific configuration file. Webpack, on the other hand, gives developers more control over the configuration process, allowing them to fine-tune every aspect of the bundling process.

Vue CLI vs Webpack

Overview