There are two ways to test web applications: In-browsers: You get a more realistic test, but you need some more complex infrastructure

Usage Like browserify, webpack analyzes all the node-style require() calls in your app and builds a bundle that you can serve

Incremental builds Make sure you don?t do a full rebuild. webpack has a great caching layer that allows to keep already compiled modules in

A loader is a node module exporting a function. This function is called

For big web apps it?s not efficient to put all code into a single file, especially if some blocks of code are only required under some circumstances. Webpack has a feature

embedded stylesheets Through using the style-loader and the css-loader it?s possible to embed stylesheets into a

You developed a library and want to distribute it in compiled/bundled versions (in addition to the modularized version). You want to allow the user to use it in a &l

AMD (Asynchronous Module Definition) was the response to those who thought the CommonJS Module system was not ready for the browser because its nature was synchronous.

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