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grunt vs gulp vs webpack on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, webpack leads grunt vs gulp vs webpack with 12,507 mentions to grunt’s 9,288, peaking in Oct 2017.

Mention-over-time for grunt vs gulp vs webpack, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

grunt9,288 mentions, peak Jan 2014gulp4,189 mentions, peak Dec 2015webpack12,507 mentions, peak Oct 2017
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How the lead changed hands

The JS build pipeline, three generations: Grunt's task-runner era 2013–14, Gulp's streaming rewrite 2014–15, then Webpack absorbs the whole job as bundling becomes the story from 2016 on.

The stories behind each line

Top “grunt” stories
  1. Show HN: Rabbits – Send an email to get any grunt-work programming job completed 256 points · 2015
  2. Ask HN: How to Become a Consultant? 227 points · 2020
  3. Launch HN: Wasp (YC W21) – DSL for building full-stack web apps 222 points · 2021
  4. Grunt and RequireJS are out, it's all about Gulp and Browserify 208 points · 2014
Top “gulp” stories
  1. Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics 516 points · 2025
  2. Launch HN: Wasp (YC W21) – DSL for building full-stack web apps 222 points · 2021
  3. Show HN: SQL Explorer – Open-source reporting tool that Just Works 215 points · 2024
  4. Grunt and RequireJS are out, it's all about Gulp and Browserify 208 points · 2014
Top “webpack” stories
  1. Turbopack, the successor to Webpack 626 points · 2022
  2. Introducing Webpack Dashboard 441 points · 2016
  3. Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible with Vue and Webpack 374 points · 2017
  4. Why we switched from Webpack to Vite 355 points · 2021

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