When comparing Brunch vs module-concat, the Slant community recommends Brunch for most people. In the question“What are the best frontend JavaScript module bundlers?” Brunch is ranked 8th while module-concat is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose Brunch is:
According to speed benchmarks, Brunch is one of the fastest tools around for compiling files. According to the authors of Brunch the reason behind this speed is that it recompiles **only** the changes that were made to an app and performs extensive caching of the app's code.
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Pros
Pro Compilation is super fast
According to speed benchmarks, Brunch is one of the fastest tools around for compiling files. According to the authors of Brunch the reason behind this speed is that it recompiles only the changes that were made to an app and performs extensive caching of the app's code.
Pro Time to setup is extremely low
After installing Brunch the next step is to load a skeleton from git.io/skeletons. This step is as easy as installing another plugin from the npm registry, just point Brunch to the path of the required skeleton/generator then wait for it to work out its magic. Next, run brunch build
then wait for a second or two and voila! the project is ready.
Pro The configuration file is small and the configuration itself is fast and easy
Brunch's config files can be extremely small compared to other alternatives. The fact that brunch also allows you to chose from a number of generators also lowers the configuration time considerably.
Pro Concatenates scripts and styles and auto-generates matching source maps
Brunch automatically produces a source map for all javascript files and CSS stylesheets whenever it minifies an app's resources. This little feature is extremely helpful when debugging is required at the client end.
Pro Supports Client-side Browser Projects
Provides some support for concatenating client-side browser JavaScript modules. Also, can process the browser
property in package.json.
Pro Supports languages that compile to JS
For example, CoffeeScript is supported using the compilers
option.
Pro Lightweight
This library just concatenates CommonJS modules together into a single *.js file. Nothing else. It only uses 1 dependency: resolve
Cons
Con Not a full-featured bundler
This doesn't handle CSS or HTML stuff. It only bundles JavaScript files.