<i>Broccoli is a new build tool. It’s comparable to the Rails asset pipeline in scope, though it runs on Node and is backend-agnostic.</i><p>This first line is a little disingenuous. Technically, it's not backend-agnostic, since it depends on Node being installed on the backend (in the same way that Sprockets [1] depends on Ruby). The Rails asset pipeline is a framework-specific integration of Sprockets. In much the same way, you could more closely integrate Broccoli with Rails if you wanted and call it a new Rails asset pipeline.<p>The project itself looks great, just the first line was confusing since they started the docs off by comparing apples to oranges.<p>A better comparison would probably be, "It's comparable to Sprockets (which powers the Rails asset pipeline), but runs on Node instead of Ruby."<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/sstephenson/sprockets" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sstephenson/sprockets</a>