Webpack

I’ve never being a fan of keeping backend and frontend codebase together, though some of the well known project achieve it quiet well like Discourse. Keeping JavaScript aside for backend solutions, as part of standalone UI elements seemed as decent solution. But when you have to develop Vue components as plugins and keep the project running - testing becomes messy. I spent half a day trying to figure out the ways how you can use symlinks to pick local packages to work in dummy VueJS app, but no luck....

This is pure awesomeness! Gajus Kuizinas went beyond asset minifiers which resulted from 140KB to 53KB CSS size decrease. There is one thing a minifier cannot do – change the selector names. This is because a CSS minifier does not control the HTML output. Meanwhile, CSS names can get long. All the details are in the post worth reading, if still think that webpack can only merge JS files in a bundle....