The CommonJS group defined a module format to solve JavaScript scope issues by making sure each module is executed in its own namespace. This

Prerequirement: Code Splitting If you need multiple bundles

Note: The webpack-dev-middleware is for advanced users. See webpack-dev-server

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There is a grunt plugin for using webpack and the webpack-dev-server:

Minimize To minimize your scripts (and your css, if you use the css-loader) webpack supports a simple option:

To effectively cache your files, they should have a hash or version in their URL. You can emit or move the output files manually in a folder called v1

In some cases webpack cannot parse some file, because it has a unsupported module format or isn?t even in a module format. Therefore you have many options to convert the file

Note that Hot Module Replacement (HMR) is still an experimental feature. Introduction Hot Module

https://github.com/webpack/karma-webpack