Build tools have existed since the dawn of the browser era, Javascript has been built for the web. ReactJS is a javascript library that was introduced to make building UIs faster and easier.

When React was introduced to the frontend ecosystem, it heavily promoted Webpack as a build tool for React. The React team included Webpack in the official React boilerplate code generator(create-react-app).

All was well until developers started noticing how slow and difficult setting up Webpack from scratch can be if they decided not to use CRA. This led to the birth of several other build tools meant to solve WebPack issues and make building React Apps faster and easier to set up.

In this talk, I’ll be exploring the following build tools, their benefits, their drawbacks, their speed, etc.