webpack is a very customizable compiler; my take is that once you're deep enough into --config (supposedly only required for non-trivial projects, in pratice, a

webpack is a very customizable compiler; my take is that once you're deep enough into --config (supposedly only required for non-trivial projects, in pratice, almost every JS project I saw requires extensive webpack mangling to work) you're building your own custom compiler with custom quirks for your project.