Build Tools 2017 Link
If you were a developer in 2017, you likely have PTSD from webpack.config.js . 2017 was a unique year in web development history. It sat right between the "Task Runner" era (Grunt/Gulp) and the modern "Bundler/Compiler" era (Vite/esbuild).
Introduced in Webpack 3, this feature allows the tool to concatenate the scope of all your modules into one closure, which allows your code to execute faster in the browser. build tools 2017
But a challenger appeared: Gulp . While Webpack handled bundling, Gulp was still the go-to for task running. Streams over configuration! Many of us ran Webpack inside Gulp. 🤯 If you were a developer in 2017, you
Parcel is unbeatable for getting up and running in seconds. Introduced in Webpack 3, this feature allows the
What Building for the Web Looked Like in 2017
While Webpack dominated the conversation, late 2017 saw the explosive arrival of . Parcel’s value proposition is simple: "Zero configuration."