Building a Platform: Webpack and the Future
summary
Claims measurable speedups: a rewritten plugin system yields 98% faster builds in some cases and shrinks a nine‑hour bundle to 17 minutes; a flag sideEffects:false saving 200KB from a single library; adoption of webassembly first-class module types and JSON tree‑shaking; a profiling plugin that emits chrome timeline json per plugin; mode/zero‑config defaults and a VS Code language‑server demo that compiles behind the editor. Slides link appears in the uploader description for reproducible detail.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 3:44Legato
- 6:14WEBPACK 4
- 7:40FASTER BUILDS
- 15:36SMALLER BUILDS
- 18:19DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE
- 22:40MODERNIZATION + RE-ARCHITECTURE
- 24:14JUST SCRATCHING THE SURFACE
- 26:51BEYOND 4.0?
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