[dom111]

We recently switched on a few of our project from Webpack and the difference is incredible. Running a watch using this is practically instantaneous compared to our previous setup. I've been recommending it to all my colleagues and we're replacing Webpack slowly but surely.

The main draw for me is the simplicity of the config too. Webpack config (even using things like Symfony's Encore) is pretty convoluted and confusing to track. This, at least in my experience, has greater readability and is simpler to understand.

[baybal2]

Webpack is a bane of webdev existence.

Having junior team encounter a webpack breakage === them spending as much time on tooling, as coding itself

[ksec]

>Webpack is a bane of webdev existence.

Modern Web Dev is the cause of Webpack though. Over complicated things.

[enjikaka]

I cannot count the days I've spend on webpack config breakage during the last years at work. It's never really been good at all either. The gulp setup we had before worked faster, better and didn't break once a month. Webpack really only is a pet project of the idiocratic React-community. Facebook not only screws your personal data over, also your dev workflow!

[intruder]

what are you talking about, webpack has nothing to do with Facebook or React.

[sanderdlm]

Do you have a public example of a PHP/Symfony project that you've ported from Webpack to esbuild?

[dom111]

I'm afraid not, it's all internal and not open-source. :(