A praise to Microbundle

Microbundle is a zero-configuration bundler for tiny modules, powered by Rollup and created by Jason Miller the inventor of Preact.

I tested it in the past on a few projects and was always impressed by the ease of use and the performances. Out of all bundlers I tested, Microbundle has always been the one delivering the smallest builds.

Microbunlde v0.12 was released few days ago this was a good opportunity to test it again and I have to say that I am SOLD !!!

I am working on a typescript library project. My bundler was a mix of Typscript transpiller, Babel and Rollup. Lots of settings I had no clue about and lots of time spent trying to tune it.

I switch to Microbundle and it:

• Worked out of the box
• Removed at least 10 packages from my package.json
• Reduced the build size by 2
• Delivers out of the box umd, CommonJS/Node, types and module builds

🙏 🙏 Thanks Jason & team 👏👏

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Comments

[leastbad]

OMFG this is incredible.

I just went from

    "@babel/core": "^7.6.2",
    "@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties": "^7.3.4",
    "@babel/plugin-proposal-object-rest-spread": "^7.5.5",
    "@babel/plugin-transform-classes": "^7.3.4",
    "@babel/plugin-transform-spread": "^7.2.2",
    "@babel/preset-env": "^7.6.2",
    "np": "^5.1.3",
    "prettier-standard": "^16.3.0",
    "rollup": "^1.20.3",
    "rollup-plugin-babel": "^4.3.2",
    "rollup-plugin-filesize": "^6.0.1",
    "rollup-plugin-node-resolve": "^5.2.0"

to

    "microbundle": "^0.12.0",
    "prettier-standard": "^16.3.0"

And it all just worked with zero configuration, as promised. Bravo.