Webpack for Beginners: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Learning Webpack 4

© Mohamed Bouzid 2020

M. BouzidWebpack for Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5896-5_1

1. Webpack: First Steps

Mohamed Bouzid¹ 

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NA, Morocco

 

In this very first chapter, we will start by laying the foundation for our work by installing the tools we need in order to run webpack on our local machine. Then we will talk a little bit about the default configuration that webpack has introduced with version 4, called “zero config.” Next we will write our first “hello world” example, which as you might already know, is a mandatory standard when starting to learn anything new. Finally, we will talk very briefly about the webpack bundling command that we will use in order to build our final output files.

Installing Webpack

First of all, you need to ...