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Making a web service via nodejs vs a web service using say dropwizad, all these web pack business is pretty complicated.

• ricardobeat 9y ago
  I’m still confused. Webpack is a frontend build tool and completely unnecessary for writing a web service. Also, from the Dropwizard tutorial: 1) configure Maven 2) create a config class 3) write a mapping.yaml for “Jackson” 4) create an application class 5) create a representation class 6) create a resource class 7) register the resource 8) configure maven again (!) for building a .jar 9) finally run it. With node you literally write 5 lines of code importing the http module and run `node server.js`. I can’t possibly imagine what steps could be more complicated than Dropwizard. I consider webpack overly complex myself, but it’s a completely self-inflicted option and not a standard for nodejs development at all. I’d be curious to know what docs you were trying to follow if you can recall.