Chapter 2: A Beginner’s Guide to Webpack 4 and Module Bundling
by Mark Brown
The Webpack 4 docs state that:
Webpack is a module bundler. Its main purpose is to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset.
Webpack has become one of the most important tools for modern web development. It’s primarily a module bundler for your JavaScript, but it can be taught to transform all of your front-end assets like HTML, CSS, even images. It can give you more control over the number of HTTP requests your app is making and allows you to use other flavors of those assets (Pug, Sass, and ES8, for example). Webpack also allows you to easily consume packages from ...
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