JavaScript build tools and bundlers
Explore Vite, webpack, and Babel. Inspect published releases, Node.js requirements, and dependency trees for your JavaScript build stack.
3 indexed packages. Inspect package specifications and compare alternatives according to their actual role in your application.
Packages in this category
- Babel: Babel compiler core.
- webpack: Packs ECMAScript/CommonJs/AMD modules for the browser. Allows you to split your codebase into multiple bundles, which can be loaded on demand. Supports loaders to preprocess files, i.e. json, jsx, es7, css, less, ... and your custom stuff.
- Vite: Native-ESM powered web dev build tool
What to compare
- Distinguish a bundler, development server, transpiler, and compiler integration.
- Check supported Node.js engine ranges and the plugins required by your project.
- Review development and production behavior separately using documented workflows.
- Use reproducible build benchmarks when available; package gzip size is not build speed or built-application size.
Example package specifications
@babel/core
| Latest version | 8.0.9 |
|---|---|
| Runtime dependencies | 16 |
| Bundled types | Bundled declarations |
| Gzip measurement | 238.02 KiB |
Evidence and freshness
- https://registry.npmjs.org/%40babel%2Fcore/8.0.9 — retrieved 2026-10-29T05:09:11.548Z
- https://api.deps.dev/v3/systems/npm/packages/%40babel%2Fcore/versions/8.0.9 — retrieved 2026-10-29T05:09:11.716Z
- https://bundlephobia.com/api/size?package=%40babel%2Fcore%408.0.9 — retrieved 2026-10-28T23:30:44.561Z
- https://api.deps.dev/v3/systems/npm/packages/%40babel%2Fcore/versions/8.0.9:dependencies — retrieved 2026-10-28T23:30:44.252Z
- https://api.deps.dev/v3/projects/github.com%2Fbabel%2Fbabel — retrieved 2026-10-29T05:09:11.952Z
webpack
| Latest version | 5.112.2 |
|---|---|
| Runtime dependencies | 17 |
| Bundled types | Bundled declarations |
| Gzip measurement | 1518.33 KiB |
Evidence and freshness
- https://registry.npmjs.org/webpack/5.112.2 — retrieved 2026-10-29T01:43:20.580Z (stale snapshot; refresh pending)
- https://bundlephobia.com/api/size?package=webpack%405.112.2 — retrieved 2026-10-28T23:30:51.016Z
- https://api.deps.dev/v3/systems/npm/packages/webpack/versions/5.112.2:dependencies — retrieved 2026-10-28T23:30:50.911Z
- https://api.deps.dev/v3/systems/npm/packages/webpack/versions/5.112.2 — retrieved 2026-10-29T01:43:20.446Z (stale snapshot; refresh pending)
- https://api.deps.dev/v3/projects/github.com%2Fwebpack%2Fwebpack — retrieved 2026-10-28T23:01:40.487Z (stale snapshot; refresh pending)