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Bundler

Bundler

About

Bundler is a zero configuration bundler with the web in mind.

Goals

  • Webplatform and Deno are the source of truth
  • Embrace the future (no legacy feature support)
  • No configuration setup
  • Allow flexible and modular usage of bundler API and CLI

Features

Typescript and Javascript

  • handles static import and export statements
  • handles dynamic import() statements
  • handles fetch() statements
  • handles WebWorker imports
  • handles ServiceWorker imports

HTML

  • handles <link>, <script>, <style>, <source> and <img> tags
  • handles style attributes
  • handles webmanifest files

CSS

  • handles css @import statements
  • supports postcss-preset-env stage 2 and nesting-rules by default

Smart-Splitting

Bundler automatically analyzes the dependency graph and splits dependencies into separate files, if it is used on multiple occasions. This prevents code duplication and allows multiple bundle files to share code.

Dev tools

  • built in file watcher with --watch option
  • built in code optimization and minification with --optimize option
  • uses cache dir .bundler for faster reloads

Installation

deno install --unstable --allow-read --allow-write --allow-net --allow-env --name bundler https://deno.land/x/bundler/cli.ts

Info: You might need to specify --root /usr/local.

Usage

CLI

bundler bundle index.html=index.html

This will analyze the entry file index.html and its dependencies, generate bundles and write the output files into an directory.

Options

Option Description Default
-c, –config <FILE> The configuration file can be used to configure different aspects of
deno including TypeScript, linting, and code formatting. Typically
the configuration file will be called deno.json or deno.jsonc
and automatically detected; in that case this flag is not necessary.
See
https://deno.land/manual@v1.22.0/getting_started/configuration_file		 {}
–out-dir <DIR> Name of out_dir “dist”
-h, –help Prints help information
–import-map <FILE> Load import map file from local file or remote URL.
Docs:
https://deno.land/manual@v1.22.0/linking_to_external_code/import_maps
Specification: https://wicg.github.io/import-maps/
Examples: https://github.com/WICG/import-maps#the-import-mapfile		 {}
–optimize Optimize source code false
-L, –log-level Set log level [possible values: debug, info] debug
-q, –quiet Suppress diagnostic output false
–watch Watch files and re-bundle on change false

API

Example 

import { bundle } from "https://deno.land/x/bundler/mod.ts";

const input = "src/index.html";

const inputs = [input];
const outputMap = { [input]: "index.html" };

const { bundles } = await bundle(inputs, { outputMap });

Advanced Example 

import {
  Bundler,
  HTMLPlugin,
  TypescriptPlugin,
} from "https://deno.land/x/bundler/mod.ts";

const input = "src/index.html";

const inputs = [input];
const outputMap = { [input]: "index.html" };

const plugins = [
  new HTMLPlugin(),
  new TypescriptPlugin(),
];

const bundler = new Bundler(plugins);

const assets = await bundler.createAssets(inputs);
const chunks = await bundler.createChunks(inputs, assets, { outputMap });
const bundles = await bundler.createBundles(chunks);

Unstable

This module requires deno to run with the --unstable flag. It is likely to change in the future.