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How to configure React with Webpack & Friends from the ground up

Mark Abeto on August 03, 2019

Good Morning Guys! I just found out that a lot of you guys like my Vue and Webpack Post so I thought maybe you're curious on how we impl...
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Adam Crockett 🌀

Great article but one question, how long did it honestly take you to setup this project?

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Mark Abeto

So I've been using webpack for almost a year now so I know what packages and libraries to use. It took almost a half hour to setup this project.

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Cool thanks, what about if you have never seen Webpack, how long would you estimate it might take. For me I'm a bit hooked on tooling and should not be allowed near a Webpack config, you won't see me for a week.

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Mark Abeto • Edited

I think I can learn it maybe in weeks or a month. The documentation is great and there's a lot of tutorials out there. I really don't like configuring projects and stuff I rather spent my time coding straight away.
But sometimes I just wanna know stuff.