3 ms·
I hear this trope here a lot, always seems to gloss over what webpack improved on, which is replacing bespoke build scripts for web projects. Also that it grea
by gedy 8y ago
I hear this trope here a lot, always seems to gloss over what webpack improved on, which is replacing bespoke build scripts for web projects. Also that it greatly reduced the ye olde tradition of coding to the least common denominator subset of features that runs on all browsers. Webpack was and is awesome for that.
- sametmax 8y agoThe fact having a broken arm is better than having aids doesn't mean breaking an arm is nice.
- lucisferre 8y ago> coding to the least common denominator subset of features that runs on all browsers Did Webpack do that or did Babel?
- sametmax 8y agoBabel. Webpack is just a glue. An over complicated glue.
- dxhdr 8y ago> replacing bespoke build scripts for web projects Does it, though? No project of moderate complexity will be able to reuse a Webpack config. Conversely, how large of a problem was this for simple sites?
- noir_lord 8y agoI still use shell scripts for moving assets around and build sass, I use webpack for the TypeScript/dependency managment (via yarn). I looked at doing it with webpack but frankly 2 lines of bash that'll work the same in a decade vs haha no wasn't a hard choice.