[killercup]

I'm constantly amazed by people who consider the ability to use Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, Browserify, etc. a "skill". I'm sorry, but to me, that's like being proud of having learnt to use that new washing machine.

More on topic:

> With Webpack you can declare a simple config file to define your build process.

Your Webpack config file is actually a Node module that happens to export a valid configuration object. It even allows your config to depend on a preprocessor (like Babel or CoffeeScript, see [1]).

By the way, if you want to have a "dev" and "production" config which are both based on a "common" config, have a look at [2] (it's nothing fancy, just deep object merge that concats arrays, basically).

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/interpret [2]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/webpack-merge

[mullsork]

I consider makefiles a skill as well, as I never learned to write them. Perhaps I never learnt bash. Takes me back to my C/C++ days fighting the build system whenever I didn't use an IDE! I didn't get very far... :-)