[rhengles]

One thing that always put me off about webpack is the default way it compiles your code. One of the ways is(was?) compiling code as _eval_(!!) statements and code as string. It is absolutely impossible to debug such code.

You were meant to rely on sourcemaps to get something on your debugger, but despite using the latest Chrome and developer tools at the time, I could never get it to work to actually debug sites.

I know Rollup, Vite and etc had a much easier time providing an easier developer experience because they rely on the browser's native ESM support, but I never could understand why webpack decided to mangle the code so badly.