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 - with…
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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 only show…
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 the over-splitting…
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…
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 config changes…
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,…
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 anyway despite…
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 underneath, and…
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…