What is Backpack?
Backpack is minimalistic build system for Node.js. Inspired by Facebook's create-react-app, Zeit's Next.js, and Remy's Nodemon, Backpack lets you create modern Node.js apps and services with zero configuration. Backpack handles all the file-watching, live-reloading, transpiling, and bundling, so you don't have to.
Backpack is a tool in the JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners category of a tech stack.
Backpack is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Backpack's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Backpack?
Companies
6 companies reportedly use Backpack in their tech stacks, including Skyscanner, STYZ, and webfactory.
Developers
8 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Backpack.
Backpack Integrations
JavaScript, Node.js, ES6, Webpack, and StealJS are some of the popular tools that integrate with Backpack. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Backpack.
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Backpack Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Backpack?
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
npm
npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day.
