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> Webpack is for dead fish. I haven't used webpack but I have used many similar tools, and I've heard a lot of praise for webpack. Can you elaborate on why you
by jamescostian 9y ago
> Webpack is for dead fish.
I haven't used webpack but I have used many similar tools, and I've heard a lot of praise for webpack. Can you elaborate on why you dislike webpack so much?
- gavinpc 9y agoI'm using "dead fish" in the Bret Victor sense.[0] It's a static tool by nature. By the time you're in a live environment, webpack is gone. [0] https://vimeo.com/64895205 https://vimeo.com/64895205
- jamescostian 9y agoOh. Isn't prepack also a "dead fish" then? Like you said, "It's a static tool by nature. By the time you're in a live environment, [prepack] is gone." There isn't any sort of prepack runtime
- gavinpc 9y agoI was assuming that the intention was to eventually provide runtime support. If that's correct, then I think we'd be in agreement about what "static" means? Babel and all sorts of other compilers can run in the browser. Whereas webpack is mainly concerned with the text that you transmit and could not "by nature" be made to do its job in the browser (because then it would be too late). That's the difference I had in mind.