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JavaScriptures 5 - Babel & Webpack
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Artsy Open Source
April 13, 2018
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JavaScriptures 5 - Babel & Webpack
https://github.com/artsy/javascriptures/tree/master/6_babel-webpack
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Transcript
Babel/Webpack Be fruitful, and bundle JavaScriptures V Chris
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But first, what is JavaScript?
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Then Google Maps happened
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JavaScript quickly went from being a “toy language” to something
that was understood to be capable of real power
But there were problems...
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NodeJS opened up the world of JavaScript to a new
community
(But the language had problems)
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However, server-side JavaScript started to be used in all sorts
of creative ways
It started to rewrite itself
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CoffeeScript was the spark. It showed the world that if
you didn’t like the language you could change it, and you didn’t need the browser vendors to do so
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Babel has support for the latest version of JavaScript through
syntax transformers. These plugins allow you to use new syntax without waiting for browser support
Before browser vendors implemented support for modern JavaScript this was
essential
Babel unlocked JavaScript’s potential as a language that can be
enjoyable to use
It also created a platform for real-time, open-source language development
and exploration
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Language proposals are submitted by TC39, and prototyped with Babel
These proposals are then moved in stages through the approval
process
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Once a proposal has reached Stage IV it is considered
stable and will be incorporated into the language
How does this apply to Artsy?
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Our JavaScript projects incorporate many language features, some of which
are not a part of the official JavaScript spec
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“JavaScript that Scales” (it’s true)
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These language features don’t run natively in the browser
They need to be transpiled into something that the browser
(or the server) can understand
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With JavaScript’s low and high-level language features, anything is possible
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4. You are expected to expect the unexpected every minute,
every hour of every day and of every night. - John C. Lilly
And things move fast....
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Things that were previously impossible to imagine have become possible,
as well as common
WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a
stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable target for compilation of high-level languages like C/C++/Rust, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications.
JavaScript frameworks can make use of WebAssembly to confer massive
performance advantages and new features while still making functionality easily available to web developers.
But how does one manage this outward-spiraling complexity?
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Webpack is a Module Bundler that runs during development
It builds a dependency graph of your application and combines
those assets into one or more bundles to be consumed by a target
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Simply put…
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It provides a common set of tools for managing application
complexity
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Because of its robust dependency graph architecture, powerful developer tooling
can be built on top of it
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And the overall developer experience highly optimized
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However, Webpack configuration can be complex
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It is designed for planet scale
But it can also be simple
webpack --mode development --output dist/bundle.js --watch
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Webpack 4 can run without configuration via the “development” --mode
flag
What does a basic Webpack config look like?
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What about a server?
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Thanks!
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