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Discussion on: I built a large production static site for a publisher (100K articles) [without GatsbyJS], Ask Me Anything!

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Brad

How long do the re-builds take for all those articles?

How difficult would it be to move from a gulp based setup to webpack?

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Jason Brown

A full site build would take 30-40min, which isn't just articles but also RSS feeds, pagination for categories and landing pages.

We didn't see a need to move to webpack, we also couldn't do incremental builds with webpack due to how it chunks JS.

Any changes would be a roll forward type thing, so you could see older content over time look or act differently to newer content. Meant we were also able to identify when breaking changes took place and it wouldn't affect the whole site.