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What JS tools are developers constantly struggling to optimize for performance? Webpack gets a lot of attention but not sure if it's an outlier? Why is it even necessary in the first place.
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There are lots of other slow JS tools but nobody is writing blog posts on how to make them faster. It's kind of accepted that they're closed systems that will eventually be optimized.
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Whereas with Webpack you need to constantly be auditing your config, be intimately aware of the architecture, and do V8 profiles yourself? Wat.
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I think the problem with webpack is there's a lot of footguns that people hit. In a more closed system like Gatsby etc. webpack build performance is pretty predictable
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It's only more predictable because you all are the ones doing the optimization, right?
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with Webpack you also have the plethora of available plugins, that then sometimes expose their own config...
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I guess Webpack, inheriting JS scalability problems, did not scale well even for mid-sized apps, so regular app devs, knowing JS, started poking it to make faster, but couldn't contribute to overly complicated internals, so went with optimizing plugins.https://twitter.com/sompylasar/status/1148839262051164160 …
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Those who went further learned the internals (architecture), but it cannot be changed, so those who went even further learned that JS performance is the underlying problem and went to V8 profiles.
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