[AskJS] Advantages of Rollup over other bundlers for creating libraries?

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Vite

Rollup is only a bundler. It doesn't provide a development server like WebPack, for example. This doesn't mean you can't build an app with it, but for convenience it's usually better to go with a framework that uses Rollup as part of its dependencies, like Vite, which integrates it into its development server.

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esbuild

Rollup is highly configurable via plugins. It also supports a wide range of transpilation targets. However, it's written in JavaScript (well, TypeScript) so there's a ceiling on how fast it can go. Esbuild and swc are orders-of-magnitude faster than Rollup.

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