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Building tools

Build tools and bundlers for modern JavaScript development — from zero-config setups to highly configurable pipelines.

  • Vite — native-ESM dev server and build tool; extremely fast HMR and build times, widely adopted for modern frontend projects
  • esbuild — extremely fast JavaScript/TypeScript bundler and minifier written in Go; often used as the underlying engine in other tools
  • Rollup — ES module bundler optimized for libraries; produces clean, tree-shaken output with excellent code splitting
  • Oxc — Rust-based JavaScript/TypeScript toolchain (parser, linter, transformer, bundler); aims to replace multiple tools with a single fast pipeline
  • Parcel — zero-configuration bundler; handles JS, CSS, HTML, and assets out of the box without any config files
  • Webpack — highly configurable module bundler for complex apps; large plugin ecosystem, de-facto standard before Vite’s rise