[tbolt]

wow, sweet. another entirely new javascript thing

[bryanlarsen]

One new thing that replaces two (or more) old things, so that's progress. webpack replaces both browserify & gulp/grunt.

[smrq]

Well, until you have any tasks other than bundling assets, and need a task runner again.

[bryanlarsen]

NPM works fine as a simple task runner, and you're probably already using that as well.