Top 15 JS Build Tools Alternative and Similar Softwares | Nov 2024

Collection of Ant tasks for a JavaScript build process.

* Preprocess:
This Ant task processes statements like #ifdef, #ifndef or #endif.

* YUICompress:
This task compresses the specified script using the YUICompressor package. The YUICompressor will remove all unneeded white space and obfuscate long variable names.

* MoxieDoc:
This task generates documentation for JavaScript projects by parsing special MoxieDoc comments. This is very similar to how JavaDoc functions.

1. jsmake

jsmake jsmake is a basic javascript preprocessor/build utility (Perl script) that you can easily integrate in your continuous integration environment.......

2. JavaScript::Ectype

JavaScript::Ectype JavaScript::Ectype - A JavaScript Preprocessor designed for large scale javascript development.JavaScript::Ectype Preprocessor can extend some features to javascript code with macro like syntax. These features are designed for large scale developping with javascript, concatenating other files ,providing namespace as like as Java or Scala and file-level-scope.......

3. JavaScript Preprocessor

JavaScript Preprocessor This is a simple JavaScript preprocessor (written in javascript) to enable conditional compilation. The syntax of the preprocessor is a subset of the C preprocessor.......

4. flintjs

flintjs flintjs is a small JavaScript build framework, designed for building JS libraries. It's powered by Apache Ant.FeaturesThe framework provides the following for JavaScript projects: - Source file concatenation, including support for dependencies using the //#REQUIRE pre-processing directive. - Automatic minification, powered by YUI Compressor. - Documentation generation, powered by JsDoc......

5. wepp

wepp wepp is a node module that processes LESS and JavaScript files in order to combine and minify them for production use. It depends on and makes use of fQuery.......

6. Sprockets

Sprockets Sprockets: Rack-based asset packaging.Sprockets is a Ruby library for compiling and serving web assets. It features declarative dependency management for JavaScript and CSS assets, as well as a powerful preprocessor pipeline that allows you to write assets in languages like CoffeeScript, Sass, SCSS and LESS.......

7. Mozilla Text Preprocessor

Mozilla Text Preprocessor The build preprocessor is similar to the C preprocessor, meant for processing files which have no built-in preprocessor such as XUL and JavaScript documents.......

8. jsmacro

jsmacro jsmacro is pre-processor designed for use with JavaScript (where "macro" currently leans more toward the C definition of a macro than the Lisp definition.)......

9. JavaScript preprocessor (jspp)

JavaScript preprocessor (jspp) A command line tool for squashing JS and CSS files. Used mostly for building UserJS.......

10. preprocess

preprocess A variation on the C preprocessor that (1) works on multiple languages and (2) encodes preprocessor statements as comments in that language so syntax correctness is not broken.......

11. SockJS

SockJS SockJS is a browser JavaScript library that provides a WebSocket-like object. SockJS gives you a coherent, cross-browser, Javascript API which creates a low latency, full duplex, cross-domain communication channel between the browser and the web server.Under the hood SockJS tries to use native WebSockets first. If that fails it can......

12. Bublé

Bublé Bublé is an ES2015 compiler. It takes your ES2015 JavaScript code and turns it into code that can run in today's environments, including old versions of Node.js and Internet Explorer.Key differences from Babel:- Bublé limits itself to ES2015 that can be compiled to compact, performant ES5- There are no plugins......

13. Firebrick UI

Firebrick UI User interface extendible component library build with bootstrap for Firebrick JS. Easy to use for structured scalable web applications.......

14. Tutorialzine

Tutorialzine Tutorialzine is a site dedicated to bringing you the coolest web development tutorials and resources.......

15. Featherlight.js

Featherlight.js Featherlight is a very lightweight jQuery lightbox plugin. It's simple yet flexible and easy to use. Featherlight has minimal css and uses no inline styles, everything is name-spaced, it's completely customizable via config object and offers image, ajax and iframe support out of the box. Featherlights small footprint weights about......