Webpack 4 course: What is Webpack?

Re:Webpack 4 course: What is Webpack? by jlebrech on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:08AM (#17540628)

it shouldn't be config based, should be a DSL or a library that's verbose enough to understand the workings of.

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Re:Webpack 4 course: What is Webpack? by YuukiRey on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:37AM (#17540794)

Interesting that you should mention it. This talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVNJKv9esE mentions some arguments why a DSL would not be a good approach for frontend/JS build tools. Namely that a DSL isn't adequate if the underlying best practices or requirements change a lot. That's why operating at a higher level of abstraction (function chaining/piping/composition) would make more sense.

Now... that doesn't really favor Webpack. And I still don't quite understand why that tool is so popular.

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Re:Webpack 4 course: What is Webpack? by bpicolo on Monday July 16, 2018 @09:55AM (#17541246)

> That's why operating at a higher level of abstraction (function chaining/piping/composition) would make more sense.

That's just back to Gulp.

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