https://what-problem-does-it-solve.com/webpack/interoperabil... nailed head-on what I detest about Webpack and many Javascript build solutions for that matter: the burning desire to shove the kitchen sink of operations into a single tool with its own, incompatible-with-everyone-else, plugin framework and an ungodly configuration language. Where all I really wanted was a somewhat more ergonomic Make and a bunch of well-written, decoupled tools to use with it.
This is on my back burner of ideas to run with one day, but as a back-end engineer working in other langs, it hasn't quite bubbled up to the surface yet.
Agreed. A decent build system language and separate tools would be a lot easier to understand than one megatool that does everything in a magic way with plugins and a mega-config file that's impossible to understand.
This is on my back burner of ideas to run with one day, but as a back-end engineer working in other langs, it hasn't quite bubbled up to the surface yet.