Turning a React Native app into an installable PWA with Webpack
A deep-dive walkthrough of taking a React Native codebase and shipping it as a fast, installable, offline-capable Progressive Web App…
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Module Federation in production: sharing code across independently deployed apps
How Webpack 5's Module Federation actually works under the hood, a working host/remote config, and the version-mismatch failure modes that…
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Code splitting in Webpack: route-based, component-based, and where it stops helping
Dynamic imports, magic comments, and the exact split points that measurably improved a real app's Time to Interactive - plus…
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Webpack vs Vite in 2026: when Webpack is still the right call
Vite won the greenfield-app conversation years ago. Here's the honest case for the projects where migrating off Webpack would cost…
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Finding and killing bundle bloat with webpack-bundle-analyzer
A practical guide to reading the treemap, the four bloat patterns we find in almost every audit, and the exact…
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Writing a custom Webpack loader from scratch
Loaders are just functions that transform source text. We build a real one - a loader that inlines SVGs as…
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Writing a custom Webpack plugin: hooking into the compiler lifecycle
Loaders transform files. Plugins do everything else. We build a plugin that writes build metadata to a JSON file on…
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Tree shaking in Webpack: why it silently fails, and how to verify it’s working
ES module static analysis, the sideEffects field, and the three most common reasons dead code ends up in your bundle…
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How Webpack’s Hot Module Replacement actually works
HMR feels like magic - edit a file, see the change instantly, keep your component state. Here's the WebSocket-and-module-boundary mechanism…
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Webpack 5 asset modules: retiring file-loader, url-loader, and raw-loader
Webpack 5 built asset handling into core. Here's the asset/resource, asset/inline, and asset/source types, the parser.dataUrlCondition size threshold, and how…
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