diff --git a/contents/articles/fuck-webpack/index.md b/contents/articles/webpack-begone/index.md similarity index 65% rename from contents/articles/fuck-webpack/index.md rename to contents/articles/webpack-begone/index.md index a793388..17cddf6 100644 --- a/contents/articles/fuck-webpack/index.md +++ b/contents/articles/webpack-begone/index.md @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ --- -title: Fuck Webpack, ES6 is HERE! +title: Webpack Begone, ES6 is HERE! author: geoff-doty date: 2017-12-24 template: article.jade --- -I know. I know. Blasphame, but I really hate [Webpack](https://webpack.js.org/), not the idea of it but what it turned web development into - a bloated tangled mess of **shit you don't need**. +I know. I know. Blasphame, but I really hate [Webpack](https://webpack.js.org/), not the idea of it but what it turned web development into - a bloated tangled mess of **headaches you don't need**. Lets take a jaded closer look... -## Webpack +## Webpack Rant [Webpack](https://webpack.js.org/) became the defacto go-to solution to get the latest [es6](http://es6-features.org) javascript language functionality into a developers pipeline via transpilers like [Babeljs](https://babeljs.io/) and support the overly bloated non-standard web component soultion as the [ReactJS](https://reactjs.org/) framework (batteries NOT included). Sure [Webpack](https://webpack.js.org/) does more or can do more, but in the end developers just want to develop with [es6](http://es6-features.org) features, **however** this was only supose to be a temporay *polyfill*, until browsers started supporting the next version of Javascript -- ES6. @@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ mantra turned to become "I work more, so I can add more configuration, so I can work more..." -Dont know about you, but dicking around with configurations all day, and watching build processes move ever S L O W E R is not what I signed up for. +Dont know about you, but tinkering around with configurations all day, and watching build processes move ever **S L O W E R** is not what I signed up for. So... -**PULL THE FUCKING PLUG!** +**PULL THE ROTTING PLUG!** Stop getting distracted by the *shiny* future that *may* never come, and focus on the here and now. **Here** and **now** is pretty awesome. We have native ES6 language support in all evergreen browsers. @@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ No webpack. No configuration. -No bullshit. +No BS. -Write the code you love, and free yourself from the **shit you dont need.** +Write the code you love, and free yourself from the **headaches you dont need.** ### How Does it work @@ -61,6 +61,16 @@ should have the extension import Code from './src/Code.js'; -and everything is right with the world and we can find peace and happyness for all. +and everything is right with the world and we can find peace and happiness for all developers. -**FUCK WEBPACK! ES6 IS HERE** \ No newline at end of file +So... + +**WEBPACK BEGONE! ES6 IS HERE** + +But I hear you screaming at the screen, **what about minification**, and ES5 support, and... + +I know [WebPack]() has its uses, or rather a build process has its uses, but a lot of that can be done much simpler...simpler for any developer to understand -- like [Gulp](). A few *gulp* scripts could solve your problem, and you can break-up to operations, combine and mix and match as is important to each developer. + +My biggest advocate for having a build process is for the final build, aka **PRODUCTION**, but code-by-the-hour should just work -- everywhere, as the web was designed. + +**Rant Over.**