Gulp
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What both publish
| Fact | Gulp | Rolldown |
|---|---|---|
| Compatibility | The project describes Gulp as platform-agnostic and says integrations are built into major IDEs and it is used with PHP, .NET, Node.js, Java, and other platforms. | Rolldown provides a Rollup-compatible API and can reuse most existing Rollup plugins. |
| License | The project's GitHub repository identifies its license as MIT. | Rolldown is free and open source; VoidZero states that it remains open source and MIT-licensed. |
| Plugin ecosystem | Gulp plugins are Node Transform Streams that transform files in a pipeline, and the project site provides a plugin search page. | Community plugins published to npm are listed in the Vite Plugin Registry. |
| Purpose | Gulp is a toolkit for automating slow or repetitive development workflows and composing them into build pipelines. | Rolldown is a Rust-based bundler for JavaScript with a Rollup-compatible API and esbuild feature parity. |
Gulp plans
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Rolldown plans
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Pick Gulp if…
Gulp suits developers who want JavaScript-defined automation for file processing and other build tasks across major desktop platforms. It can fit projects using Node.js, PHP, .NET, Java, TypeScript, or integrated development environments.
Pick Rolldown if…
Rolldown suits JavaScript developers looking for a bundler with TypeScript and JSX transforms and a Rollup-compatible plugin API. Its guidance points most application developers toward using it through Vite and library authors toward tsdown.