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by _bxg1 2311 days ago
Hmm, I got a little thrown off by the words "bundler and minifier", which are both Webpack tasks. Scrolling further down I do see "JSX transformation" thrown in, which is definitely normally a Babel thing.

If this project is trying to replace everything in a single pass then yeah, it's probably doomed to failure. Not only from the ambition of the task, but from the lack of the modular structure that allows community support to thrive: anybody can write a Webpack loader or a Babel plugin without getting their hands dirty in those codebases. That doesn't seem to be the case here.

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I think the intention of the project is somewhat different to "classic" transformation tasks, in that it intends to cover the 80% workflow - take some js files, a few libraries, and make an efficient bundle from it.

That's what I need to do often and exactly what's annoyingly time intensive with the current JavaScript tooling.

Sir, it's a hobby project and can be appreciated for its efforts