I have to sing some praises for Webpack for a second.
I work at a company with a large (> 10k files) old (> 10 years) JS codebase. It used to rely on a home-grown build tool, but making our builds both fast and modern took the time of multiple full-time engineers. Webpack isn't "fast" like Rust is fast, and it's not old enough to be as well-documented or understandable as I'd wish, but:
1. it is flexible enough to fit all of our weird edge cases.
2. it has a really solid community of people working on it.
3. it made adopting new features like TypeScript extremely simple for us.
I don't see us upgrading from 4 to 5 eagerly (at least until it's been production-proven), but I'm excited about this release, and I love all the hard work that's gone into it. Congrats to the team — it's no small feat.
I can totally relate. I have been working on a similar codebase (6k modules), once built with Grunt and then migrated to Webpack. It has proven to be a mature tool.
1. it is flexible enough to fit all of our weird edge cases.
2. it has a really solid community of people working on it.
3. it made adopting new features like TypeScript extremely simple for us.
I don't see us upgrading from 4 to 5 eagerly (at least until it's been production-proven), but I'm excited about this release, and I love all the hard work that's gone into it. Congrats to the team — it's no small feat.
Edit: formatting