ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Damian Osipiuk

Team Leader - Senior Frontend Engineer

Professionally, Damian designs and implements front-end application architectures. He also leads a small front-end team. Outside of work, he’s a car enthusiast and a father.

Damian Osipiuk

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Webpack 3 to webpack 4: tips on migrating

Having heard a lot about speed improvements, we recently migrated from webpack 3 to webpack 4. The results have been astonishing: our average build time improved by 30%, and hot-reloading by 83%! This article covers the following topics:1. The key benefits of migration2. How webpack 3 compares to webpack 4 in terms of build time3. How to effectively migrate from webpack 3 to webpack 44. The pitfalls to avoidI’ll start by saying our project is humongous, so builds are pretty slow. Our hot-update recently got so slow, in fact, that we decided something had to be done.
Damian Osipiuk

Damian Osipiuk

on Sep 6, 2018