I definitely went through the pain of trying to set up Webpack 1.x on a large project. The documentation was probably the worst part (it was adequate as a refer

I definitely went through the pain of trying to set up Webpack 1.x on a large project. The documentation was probably the worst part (it was adequate as a reference, but really assumed you already knew some of the fairly complex topics). I also recently went through the process of refactoring our build to use Webpack 3.8. The documentation is a LOT better. Their introductory docs especially. I feel like I finally understand parts of WP 1.x after reading the 2.x/3.x docs. Gulp and Webpack really are two separate things. Gulp is basically like Ant had a baby with NPM scripts. Webpack is closer to Maven, but Maven really tries to do a LOT more. For any project, start with NPM scripts for your task running, then include gulp if/when you actually need them. Same goes with Webpack: don't include it in every project just because you think you might need it eventually.