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 more than…
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Tag: build-tools
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 React components…
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 every compile,…
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 to migrate…