Entry point and output
JavaScript and other files imported into each other are closely interwoven. Webpack creates a graph of all such dependencies. The starting point of this graph is called entry point. An entry point tells Webpack where to start to resolve all dependencies and creates a bundle. Entry points are created in the Webpack configuration file using the entry property. In the seed project on GitHub, we have two configuration files, one for the development mode (webpack.dev.js) and one for the production (webpack.prod.js) mode, each with two entry points.
In the development mode, we use the main entry point for JIT compilation. The main.jit.ts file contains quite normally bootstrapping code. The second entry point combines files ...
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