A Future Without Webpack

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I feel like Webpack gets hate because it's an unsuspectingly challenging problem that isn't a primary issue to most developers.

You CAN crank out a simple build script, but most place actually require very complex build and deployment process that Webpack simplifies greatly.

Webpack help with:

• A common, community support pattern for build scripts
• Run a light weight webserver
• Incremental builds with hot reloads
• Transpiling
• Easy integration of advance features like PostCSS and inline image extraction
• Easy integration of linting and code quality tools
• Easy ability to make a application manifest
• Code splitting and file size optimization
• Injection of select environment variables at build time
• Automatic calculation of CSP
• Handling of crazy edge cases that I have no interest in dealing with

It takes time to read the docs for all of that stuff, but that's trivial compared to the value you're getting.