[chrismorgan]

> 2. It converts nodejs code that isn't compatible with the browser into browser code 2. It converts JS code that isn't compatible with nodejs to nodejs code

I’m not sure what that lot means. Are you talking about converting CommonJS to… I dunno, ECMAScript Modules? and vice versa? And there’s plenty that’s available in the NodeJS or web environments that’s simply unavailable in the other, e.g. the "http" and "https" modules from NodeJS and the fetch() global in the web, and you often can’t translate between the two at all, and even if you can, it’d be decidedly messy.

Output format is almost orthogonal to what I understand you to be talking about. In the terms of other bundling stuff, you seem to be talking more about features of Babel rather than features of webpack/Rollup, and if so, then output format is completely orthogonal.