Grunt vs Rollup
Grunt
gruntjs.com
Rollup
rollupjs.orgSide by side
| Figure | Grunt | Rollup |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · JavaScript Build Tools | 8.0 (#7) | 7.3 (#20) |
| Plugins | The Grunt ecosystem offers hundreds of plugins, and developers can publish their own Grunt plugins to npm. | Rollup provides a plugin API for code injections and transformations. |
| Purpose | Grunt automates repetitive development tasks such as minification, compilation, unit testing, and linting. | Rollup is a JavaScript module bundler that compiles smaller code modules into libraries or applications. |