Backpack

Backpack is a 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. It comes with a few conventions defaults (like support for the latest JavaScript awesomeness (i.e. async/await, object rest spread, and class properties)), but everything can be customized to fit your project's needs. Best of all, you can easily add Backpack to your existing Node.js project with just a single dependency. To extend our usage of babel, you can define a .babelrc file at the root of your app. This file is optional. Backpack is focused on server-only applications. You should use create-react-app or Next.js for your frontend and then build your backend with Backpack.