Top 8 Javascript Build System tools for developer in 2023.

Incremental builds

Building once is painful enough, Turborepo will remember what you've built and skip the stuff that's already been computed.

Content-aware hashing

Turborepo looks at the contents of your files, not timestamps to figure out what needs to be built.

Remote Caching

Share a remote build cache with your teammates and CI/CD for even faster builds.

Parallel execution

Execute builds using every core at maximum parallelism without wasting idle CPUs.

Zero runtime overhead

Turborepo won’t interfere with your runtime code or touch your sourcemaps.

Pruned subsets

Speed up PaaS deploys by generating a subset of your monorepo with only what's needed to build a specific target.

Task pipelines

Define the relationships between your tasks and then let Turborepo optimize what to build and when.

Meets you where you’re at

Using Lerna? Keep your package publishing workflow and use Turborepo to turbocharge task running.

Profile in your browser

Generate build profiles and import them in Chrome or Edge to understand which tasks are taking the longest.

Never Rebuilds Same Code Twice

Lerna won't run the tasks it executed before, and instead will restore the files and the terminal output from its cache.

Distributed Cache

Computation cache can be shared between developers or CI/CD machines, drastically reducing average CI times.

Target Dependencies

Lerna lets you specify how different targets (npm scripts) depend on each other.

Efficient Execution

Lerna runs any command in the most efficient way with the max degree of parallelization while respecting the execution order.

Infinite Scaling with Distributed Execution

Lerna can run any command across multiple machines without having to configure anything.

Powerful Graph Visualizer

Lerna comes with a powerful interactive workspace visualizer, helping you understand the architecture of your workspace.

Polished DX

Lerna has a powerful dynamic CLI, making sure you only see what is relevant when you run commands against many projects.

Minimal

Lerna requires requires very little configuration, and doesn’t clutter your files. You still run your npm scripts, just faster.

Lerna Does it All

Why have separate tools for running tasks, linking packages and publishing them? Lerna does it--less config, less overhead.

Increased productivity

With Rust as our foundation, we can ensure robust speeds, high performance, and low memory usage. Instead of long builds blocking you, focus on your work.

Exceptional developer experience

As veterans of the JavaScript ecosystem, we're well aware of the pain points and frustrations. Our goal is to mitigate and overcome these obstacles.

Incremental adoption

At its core, moon has been designed to be adopted incrementally and is not an "all at once adoption". Migrate project-by-project, or task-by-task, it's up to you!

Reduced scripts confusion

package.json scripts can become unwieldy, very quickly. No more duplicating the same script into every package, or reverse-engineering which root scripts to use. With moon, all you need to know is the project name, and a task name.

Ensure correct versions

Whether it's Node.js or npm, ensure the same version of each tool is the same across every developer's environment. No more wasted hours of debugging.

Automation built-in

When applicable, moon will automatically install node_modules, or sync package dependencies, or even sync TypeScript project references.

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Best-in-Class Support for Monorepos

Nx builds a project graph by analyzing your workspace, which it then uses to only rebuild what is necessary and to never run the same computation twice. Nx also helps establish structured code sharing and ownership management to keep the workspace maintainable.

Integrated Development Experience

Nx provides a modern integrated dev experience. It has a high-quality VS Code plugin, interactive visualizations, GitHub integration and more.

Rich Plugin Ecosystem

The core of Nx is generic, simple, and unobtrusive. Nx Plugins are completely optional, but they can really level up your productivity.

Incremental by design

Building once is enough work—once Turbopack performs a task, it never does it again.

Ecosystem-friendly

Get out-of-the-box support for TypeScript, JSX, CSS, CSS Modules, WebAssembly, and more.

Lightning fast HMR

Hot Module Replacement (HMR) stays fast regardless of the size of your app.

React Server Components

Get native support for React Server Components when using Turbopack.

Simultaneous Multiple Env Targets

Build and optimize for multiple environments together (Browser, Server, Edge, SSR, React Server Components).

Next.js support

Turbopack will also power Next.js production builds, both locally and in the cloud.

• Extreme speed without needing a cache
• JavaScript, CSS, TypeScript, and JSX built-in
• A straightforward API for CLI, JS, and Go
• Bundles ESM and CommonJS modules
• Tree shaking, minification, and source maps
• Local server, watch mode, and plugins

Open source and free

Fast

Built with Rust and an innovative architecture inspired by rust-analyzer. We are able to do even more while being faster.

Simple

Zero configuration needed to get started. Extensive options available for when you need them.

Scalable

Designed to handle codebases of any size. Focus on growing product instead of your tools.

Optimized

With tight internal integration we are able to reuse previous work and any improvement to one tool improves them all.

Actionable & Informative

Avoid obscure error messages, when we tell you something is wrong, we tell you exactly where the problem is and how to fix it.

Batteries Included

Out of the box support for all the language features you use today. First class support for TypeScript and JSX.

Open source and free