Pint vs Webpack

Transparently handles calculations with quantities with uncertainties (like 3.14±0.01) meter via the uncertainties package.

A single codebase that runs unchanged in Python 2.7+ and Python 3.0+.

It supports a lot of numpy mathematical operations without monkey patching or wrapping numpy.

Supports fraction, float, decimal, numpy.ndarray, etc.

Using Grunt in complex projects can lead to extremely bloated build files. Pint resolves this issue by introducing Jobs, a job is basically a set of Grunt tasks that are related to a particular build step. Using this method the build code remains organized in different job files, for example one for js compilation and one for CSS preprocessing. When the build process is started, Pint starts running these job files which in turn build the project.

Here's a sample Pintfile.js further demonstrating the concept of jobs in PintJS.

Every job in a build process may depend on something before it. A simple example would be copying of the minified files to the dist directory, this task needs to be performed after the compilation is complete. What Pint does is that it lets the user declare the dependencies within each job in a dependsOn array. Hence whenever PintJS starts the build process it first generates an internal dependency model so that the build could be parallelized by spawning up new Grunt processes wherever possible resulting in the complete build process being concurrent (and really fast!).

Pint is built on Grunt, so it can use Grunt's plugins. Grunt has a plugin for pretty much any need with over 4000 plugins currently available.

In some projects there are tasks that aren't related to the build at all. These can be simple tasks such as pulling the GIT SHA or reading the package.json file into variables. With Pint these additional tasks can be defined in the build file too. This is made possible by providing users with an initializr and a finalizr; inside the initialize callback, tasks such as generation of a list of test files or reading the package.json file can be defined, while in the finalize callback users can define moving of the build files or pushing the source maps to their server.

Plugins and loaders are easy to write and allow you to control each step of the build, from loading and compiling CoffeeScript, LESS and JADE files to smart post processing and asset manifest building.

Using Webpack opens you up to npm, that has over 80k modules of which a great amount work both client-side and server-side. And the list is growing rapidly.

Webpack allows you to split your codebase into multiple chunks. Chunks are loaded on demand. This reduces the initial loading time.

Source maps allow for easier debugging, because they allow you to find the problems within the origin files instead of the output file.

Webpack supports ES6 modules and their import and export methods without having to compile them to CommonJS require

Because Webpack allows you to use the same require() function as node.js, you can easily share modules between the client-side and server-side.

Webpack supports AMD and CommonJS module styles. It performs clever static analysis on the AST of your code. It even has an evaluation engine to evaluate simple expressions. This allows you to support most existing libraries.

Webpack supports using all three module types, even in the same file.