Rollup Terser Plugin
Official Rollup plugin for minifying JavaScript bundles with Terser.
Build tools and bundlers npm MIT
How Rollup Terser Plugin is used
Rollup Terser Plugin is a dependency in 7 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 29 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is Vite (1,216 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Rollup (96.6%), @rollup/plugin-node-resolve (93.1%), @rollup/plugin-commonjs (86.2%).
Rollup Terser Plugin popularity over time
Gid Score 54: downloads 80, use in agent projects 33, GitHub stars 34, downloads trend 60 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Rollup Terser Plugin
| Rollup | 96.6% of Rollup Terser Plugin projects · 162.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| @rollup/plugin-node-resolve | 93.1% of Rollup Terser Plugin projects · 321.1× more than average |
| @rollup/plugin-commonjs | 86.2% of Rollup Terser Plugin projects · 356.8× more than average |
| @rollup/plugin-typescript | 79.3% of Rollup Terser Plugin projects · 410.3× more than average |
| Husky | 65.5% of Rollup Terser Plugin projects · 6.4× more than average |
| Babel (JavaScript) | 58.6% of Rollup Terser Plugin projects · 15.8× more than average |
| Prettier | 69.0% of Rollup Terser Plugin projects · 3.3× more than average |
| @rollup/plugin-json | 55.2% of Rollup Terser Plugin projects · 856.3× more than average |
From all 29 projects in our scan that use Rollup Terser Plugin, including the dependency samples.
How Rollup Terser Plugin is funded
Open Collective: Rollup
| Received, last 12 months | $16,299 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $16,270 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $56,360 |
| Raised since the start | $105,899 · $49,539 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $1,151 · $1,188 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +3% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 23 |
Top company backers all time, 32 companies in total
| Sanity | $6,000 since Nov 2024 |
|---|---|
| Aragon | $2,897 since Nov 2018 |
| MacPaw | $2,150 since Aug 2022 |
| Oasis Digital Solutions Inc. | $2,100 since Feb 2018 |
| Frontend Masters | $2,100 since Jul 2019 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Jan 2018. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 7 more tools in our catalog: Rollup, @rollup/plugin-node-resolve, @rollup/plugin-commonjs, @rollup/plugin-typescript, Rollup Babel Plugin, @rollup/plugin-json and others.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Ways to fund Rollup Terser Plugin
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install @rollup/plugin-terser |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (26), Next.js (2), Python (1) |
| Example projects | leboncoin/spark-web, dimaslanjaka/php-proxy-hunter, campaign-layer/camp-sdk, rexrainbow/phaser3-rex-playground, airopshq/airops-js |
Alternatives to Rollup Terser Plugin
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Rollup Terser Plugin are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vite npm Fast native-ESM powered web development build tool and dev server. |
90 | 1,216 (25.2%) | 119M | 83.4K | MIT |
| esbuild npm Extremely fast JavaScript and CSS bundler and minifier written in Go. |
82 | 290 (6.0%) | 184M | 40.1K | MIT |
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