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by bryanrasmussen 1581 days ago
>If you need lots of complex build logic webpack is the way to go.

I mean that is a weird thing to say it seems to me because whenever I have any sort of complex build logic that is when webpack becomes completely impenetrable or just does not support what I need - what do you mean by a complex logic that webpack supports that gulp doesn't?

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Should have specified that more, sorry for that. Webpack, for better or worse, has most of the current dev mindshare and tons of plugins, stackoverflow questions & random blog posts. If you need some integration for <fancy thing>, your chance of finding something working for webpack is far higher. You can build/support everything with gulp just fine if you don't want to use webpack, the question is: Why exactly would you specifically choose gulp and not, for example, esbuild?