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Webpack is known as a bit of a bear. Yet, it's used in a large percentage of frontend projects. There is ...
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Very good overview. Also reinforces my view that developers should add the minimum required amount of tooling to get the job done.
At its worst, modern JavaScript development can feel like balancing on top of a stack of wobbly chairs. It's so very complected, with every layer bleeding into the next. The only way to really control this (mostly incidental) complexity is to get rid of some of the layers.
Great article 🙌
One small note- you can actually use es6 modules in Node > v13!
You can indeed. But it's so new I don't expect most people to be using it yet :)
Although, Node 14 now has the warning removed (although the support is for the most part still experimental unfortunately). I'll still be using Babel for things like
this?.prop, though :PI would so love to. Because of Google cloud, I'm stuck on 8 and 10. I'll probably be able to use 13 sometime around 2050.