Microbundle 
The zero-configuration bundler for tiny modules, powered by Rollup.
Guide → Setup ✯ Formats ✯ Modern Mode ✯ Usage & Configuration ✯ All Options
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Features
- One dependency to bundle your library using only a
package.json - Support for ESnext & async/await (via Babel & async-to-promises)
- Produces tiny, optimized code for all inputs
- Supports multiple entry modules (
cli.js+index.js, etc) - Creates multiple output formats for each entry (CJS, UMD & ESM)
- 0 configuration TypeScript support
- Built-in Terser compression & gzipped bundle size tracking
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Installation & Setup
npm i -D microbundle
package.json:
{
"name": "foo", // your package name
"source": "src/foo.js", // your source code
"main": "dist/foo.js", // where to generate the CommonJS/Node bundle
"exports": "./dist/foo.modern.js", // path to the modern output (see below)
"module": "dist/foo.module.js", // where to generate the ESM bundle
"unpkg": "dist/foo.umd.js", // where to generate the UMD bundle (also aliased as "umd:main")
"scripts": {
"build": "microbundle", // compiles "source" to "main"/"module"/"unpkg"
"dev": "microbundle watch" // re-build when source files change
}
}
npm run build.
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Output Formats
Microbundle produces esm, cjs, umd bundles with your code compiled to syntax that works pretty much everywhere. While it's possible to customize the browser or Node versions you wish to support using a browserslist configuration, the default setting is optimal and strongly recommended.
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Modern Mode
In addition to the above formats, Microbundle also outputs a modern bundle specially designed to work in all modern browsers. This bundle preserves most modern JS features when compiling your code, but ensures the result runs in 95% of web browsers without needing to be transpiled. Specifically, it uses preset-modules to target the set of browsers that support <script type="module"> - that allows syntax like async/await, tagged templates, arrow functions, destructured and rest parameters, etc. The result is generally smaller and faster to execute than the esm bundle:
// Our source, "src/make-dom.js":
export default async function makeDom(tag, props, children) {
let el = document.createElement(tag);
el.append(...(await children));
return Object.assign(el, props);
}
Compiling the above using Microbundle produces the following modern and esm bundles:
make-dom.modern.js (117b) |
make-dom.module.js (194b) |
|---|---|
export default async function (e, t, a) {
let n = document.createElement(e);
n.append(...(await a));
return Object.assign(n, t);
}
|
export default function (e, t, r) {
try {
var n = document.createElement(e);
return Promise.resolve(r).then(function (e) {
return n.append.apply(n, e), Object.assign(n, t);
});
} catch (e) {
return Promise.reject(e);
}
}
|
This is enabled by default. All you have to do is add an "exports" field to your package.json:
{
"main": "./dist/foo.umd.js", // legacy UMD output (for Node & CDN use)
"module": "./dist/foo.module.js", // legacy ES Modules output (for bundlers)
"exports": "./dist/foo.modern.js", // modern ES2017 output
"scripts": {
"build": "microbundle src/foo.js"
}
}
The "exports" field can also be an object for packages with multiple entry modules:
{
"name": "foo",
"exports": {
".": "./dist/foo.modern.js", // import "foo" (the default)
"./lite": "./dist/lite.modern.js", // import "foo/lite"
"./full": "./dist/full.modern.js" // import "foo"
},
"scripts": {
"build": "microbundle src/*.js" // build foo.js, lite.js and full.js
}
}
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Usage & Configuration
Microbundle includes two commands - build (the default) and watch. Neither require any options, but you can tailor things to suit your needs a bit if you like.
ℹ️ Microbundle automatically determines which dependencies to inline into bundles based on yourpackage.json.Read more about How Microbundle decides which dependencies to bundle, including some example configurations.
microbundle / microbundle build
Unless overridden via the command line, microbundle uses the source property in your package.json to locate the input file, and the main property for the output:
{
"source": "src/index.js", // input
"main": "dist/my-library.js", // output
"scripts": {
"build": "microbundle"
}
}
For UMD builds, microbundle will use a camelCase version of the name field in your package.json as export name. This can be customized using an "amdName" key in your package.json or the --name command line argument.
microbundle watch
Acts just like microbundle build, but watches your source files and rebuilds on any change.
Using with TypeScript
Just point the input to a .ts file through either the cli or the source key in your package.json and you’re done.
Microbundle will generally respect your TypeScript config defined in a tsconfig.json file with notable exceptions being the "target" and "module" settings. To ensure your TypeScript configuration matches the configuration that Microbundle uses internally it's strongly recommended that you set "module": "ESNext" and "target": "ESNext" in your tsconfig.json.
If you're using TypeScript with CSS Modules, you will want to set "include": ["node_modules/microbundle/index.d.ts"] in your tsconfig.json to tell TypeScript how to handle your CSS Module imports.
CSS and CSS Modules
Importing CSS files is supported via import "./foo.css". By default, generated CSS output is written to disk. The --css inline command line option will inline generated CSS into your bundles as a string, returning the CSS string from the import:
// with the default external CSS:
import './foo.css'; // generates a minified .css file in the output directory
// with `microbundle --css inline`:
import css from './foo.css';
console.log(css); // the generated minified stylesheet
CSS Modules: CSS files with names ending in .module.css are treated as a CSS Modules. To instead treat imported .css files as modules, run Microbundle with --css-modules true. To disable CSS Modules for your project, pass --no-css-modules or --css-modules false.
The default scope name for CSS Modules is_[name]__[local]__[hash:base64:5] in watch mode, and _[hash:base64:5] for production builds. This can be customized by passing the command line argument --css-modules "[name]_[hash:base64:7]", using these fields and naming conventions.
| flag | import | is css module? |
|---|---|---|
| null | import './my-file.css'; |
|
| null | import './my-file.module.css'; |
|
| false | import './my-file.css'; |
|
| false | import './my-file.module.css'; |
|
| true | import './my-file.css'; |
|
| true | import './my-file.module.css'; |
|
Specifying builds in package.json
Microbundle uses the fields from your package.json to figure out where it should place each generated bundle:
{
"main": "dist/foo.js", // CommonJS bundle
"umd:main": "dist/foo.umd.js", // UMD bundle
"module": "dist/foo.m.js", // ES Modules bundle
"esmodule": "dist/foo.modern.js", // Modern bundle
"types": "dist/foo.d.ts" // TypeScript typings directory
}
Building a single bundle with a fixed output name
By default Microbundle outputs multiple bundles, one bundle per format. A single bundle with a fixed output name can be built like this:
microbundle -i lib/main.js -o dist/bundle.js --no-pkg-main -f umd
Mangling Properties
To achieve the smallest possible bundle size, libraries often wish to rename internal object properties or class members to smaller names - transforming this._internalIdValue to this._i. Microbundle doesn't do this by default, however it can be enabled by creating a mangle.json file (or a "mangle" property in your package.json). Within that file, you can specify a regular expression pattern to control which properties should be mangled. For example: to mangle all property names beginning an underscore:
{
"mangle": {
"regex": "^_"
}
}
It's also possible to configure repeatable short names for each mangled property, so that every build of your library has the same output. See the wiki for a complete guide to property mangling in Microbundle.
Defining build-time constants
The --define option can be used to inject or replace build-time constants when bundling. In addition to injecting string or number constants, prefixing the define name with @ allows injecting JavaScript expressions.
| Build command | Source code | Output |
|---|---|---|
microbundle --define VERSION=2 |
console.log(VERSION) |
console.log(2) |
microbundle --define API_KEY='abc123' |
console.log(API_KEY) |
console.log("abc123") |
microbundle --define @assign=Object.assign |
assign(a, b) |
Object.assign(a, b) |
All CLI Options
Usage
$ microbundle <command> [options]
Available Commands
build Build once and exit
watch Rebuilds on any change
For more info, run any command with the `--help` flag
$ microbundle build --help
$ microbundle watch --help
Options
-v, --version Displays current version
-i, --entry Entry module(s)
-o, --output Directory to place build files into
-f, --format Only build specified formats (any of modern,es,cjs,umd or iife) (default modern,es,cjs,umd)
-w, --watch Rebuilds on any change (default false)
--pkg-main Outputs files analog to package.json main entries (default true)
--target Specify your target environment (node or web) (default web)
--external Specify external dependencies, or 'none' (default peerDependencies and dependencies in package.json)
--globals Specify globals dependencies, or 'none'
--define Replace constants with hard-coded values (use @key=exp to replace an expression)
--alias Map imports to different modules
--compress Compress output using Terser
--no-compress Disable output compressing
--strict Enforce undefined global context and add "use strict"
--name Specify name exposed in UMD and IIFE builds
--cwd Use an alternative working directory (default .)
--sourcemap Generate source map (default true)
--raw Show raw byte size (default false)
--jsx A custom JSX pragma like React.createElement (default: h)
--jsxImportSource Specify the automatic import source for JSX like preact
--tsconfig Specify the path to a custom tsconfig.json
--css Where to output CSS: "inline" or "external" (default: "external")
--css-modules Configures .css to be treated as modules (default: null)
-h, --help Displays this message
Examples
$ microbundle build --globals react=React,jquery=$
$ microbundle build --define API_KEY=1234
$ microbundle build --alias react=preact/compat
$ microbundle watch --no-sourcemap # don't generate sourcemaps
$ microbundle build --tsconfig tsconfig.build.json
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Roadmap
Here's what's coming up for Microbundle:
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Built with Microbundle
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- Stockroom Offload your store management to a worker easily.
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- Theme UI Build consistent, themeable React apps based on constraint-based design principles.
- react-recomponent Reason-style reducer components for React using ES6 classes.
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- react-hooks-lib A set of reusable react hooks.
- mdx-deck-live-code A library for mdx-deck to do live React and JS coding directly in slides.
- react-router-ext An Extended react-router-dom with simple usage.
- routex.js A dynamic routing library for Next.js.
- hooked-form A lightweight form-management library for React.
- goober Less than 1KB css-in-js alternative with a familiar API.
- react-model The next generation state management library for React
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