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Webpack is a godsend. Do you not remember Gulp?

Or....Gradle...?

Modern JS is a dream to work with. The days of pre-transpilation and modularization with hundreds of script tags and giant IIFE's and worrying about cross-browser was a total mess. It finally feels like the web has matured as an application platform and I've been waiting for this day for a long time.

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I could understand what was going on before transpilation. There was just Javascript, and while some functions might not exist in different browsers, the core was the same.

Now I have to figure out the difference between: ‘umd’, ‘commonjs’, ‘esnext’, ‘es2015’, ‘es2018’, and a whole bunch more.

I don’t want to keep up with JS politics just to be able to develop with the latest version.

Just about the time Chrome and Firefox came out with working debuggers for JavaScript, everybody rushed onto non-debuggable bandwagons, so we’re back to the bad old days of using “alert” to debug...

You could just not do any of that and be fine.

Webpack is still a nightmare of terrible configuration.

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