Getting Started with webpack
Recall that the application weâve been developing is for creating and managing named reading lists called book bundles. The application, Better Book Bundle Builder, abbreviated as B4, consists only of RESTful APIs at this point.
Throughout this chapter, weâll be configuring a front-end builder tool called webpack. It takes all your front-end code and its dependencies and bundles it all up into a small number of deliverables.
For example, say you have one main JavaScript file, with two libraries that it depends on. Rather than send three individual JavaScript files to the client browser, webpack handles the job of combining these assets into a single JavaScript file. Through a variety of plugins, it can do the ...
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