Gulp.js AlternativesBuild Systems and other similar apps like Gulp.js

Gulp.js is described as 'A toolkit to automate & enhance your workflow. Leverage gulp and the flexibility of JavaScript to automate slow, repetitive workflows and compose them into efficient build pipelines' and is a Build System in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Gulp.js for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted and Node.JS apps. The best Gulp.js alternative is Grunt, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Gulp.js are Webpack, esbuild, Parcel JS and Broccoli.

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  1. Grunt icon
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    Automates repetitive tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, and linting using a Gruntfile. Vast ecosystem offers hundreds of plugins, enabling easy task automation with minimal effort. Create custom plugins or choose from existing ones for various development needs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Almost everyone thinks Grunt is a great Gulp.js alternative.

    • Grunt is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Gulp.js.

    • Grunt is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Gulp.js.

    • Grunt is Free and Open SourceGulp.js is also Free and Open Source
  2. Webpack icon
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    Webpack is a module bundler for modern JavaScript applications. When webpack processes your application, it recursively builds a dependency graph that includes every module your application needs, then packages all of those modules into a small number of bundles — often only one...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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  3. Parcel JS icon
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    Parcel combines a great out-of-the-box development experience with a scalable architecture that can take your project from just getting started to massive production application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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  4. Broccoli icon
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    A fast, reliable asset pipeline, supporting constant-time rebuilds and compact build definitions. Comparable to the Rails asset pipeline in scope, though it runs on Node and is backend-agnostic.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • BSD
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    • npm
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Brunch.io icon
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    Brunch lets you focus on what matters most — solving real problems instead of messing around with the glue.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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  6. Turbopack icon
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    Turbopack is an incremental bundler optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust by the creators of webpack and Next.js at Vercel.

    14 Turbopack alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
     
  7. pypyr icon
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    pypyr is an open source task-runner for automation pipelines. pypyr lets you script sequential tasks in a simple yaml format with conditional execution, loops, error handling and retries for any step in your pipeline.

    29 pypyr alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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  8. Mimosa icon
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    A lightning-fast build tool for modern web development. Mimosa includes support for JavaScript, CSS, and template compilers, bower, linting, optimization, serving, RequireJS support, and Live Reload. It is also modular and pluggable for authoring your own functionality.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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  9. Assemble icon
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    Static site generator for Grunt.js and Yeoman. Assemble makes it dead simple to build modular sites, blogs, gh-pages, components and documentation from reusable templates and data. | Static site generator for Grunt.js and Yeoman.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
    • Yeoman
    • Node.JS
    • Grunt
     
  10. Feri icon
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    The easy to use build tool for web files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Lineman icon
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    Lineman is a command-line utility that is hyper-focused on helping web developers build first-class JavaScript web applications. Lineman provides a thin wrapper around a number of client-side productivity tools (primarily Express, Grunt, and Testem), with the goal of helping...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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