[BigJono]

That "one link out of thousands" is the first page of the official docs for pretty much the only complex bit of getting started doing frontend.

If people are getting stuck because they're trying to get into something by following a "Frontend stack in 10 minutes!" blog post that introduces 10 dependencies and aims to skip all the actual learning bit in the interest of "getting up to speed" then they fucking deserve to get stuck.

There's only thousands of answers because everyone is too stupid to just go and read the obviously correct one and thousands of people try and exploit that for some industry cred or something.

[fendy3002]

I agree with this view, but not everything is black and white. Webpack is hard because it's a tooling, and a big and complex one at that. And usually it lacks resources other that official documentations in which can be used to learn/debug it.

However your view is also correct. They're too overwhelmed with the capabilities and complexities of webpack that they missed how there are hundreds of working webpack configuration for react etc, that they can use as reference, or how easy it is to be configured when you follow the tutorial and know what is babel, loader, presets, etc.