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Florian Rappl
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Florian Rappl

Florian Rappl is a solution architect working on distributed web applications for digital transformation and IoT projects. His main interest lies in the implementation of micro frontends and their impact on teams and business models. As the lead architect he helped to create outstanding web applications for many industry leading companies. He regularly gives lectures on software design patterns and web development. Florian won multiple prizes for his work over the years and is recognized as a Microsoft MVP for development technologies. He started his career in software engineering before studying physics and helping to build an energy-efficient supercomputer. Florian currently lives in Munich, Germany, with his wife and two daughters.
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Using Webpack

Webpack is presumably the most popular option among the available bundlers. It is also among the oldest bundlers – dating back to a time when Node.js was still young and the whole idea of bundling was rather new. At this time, task runners were still dominantly used. However, the increasing complexity of frontend development opened the door for much more elaborate tooling.

One thing that makes Webpack stand out is its ecosystem. From the very beginning, Webpack decided to develop only a very shallow core focusing on module resolution. In some sense, Webpack is just the wrapper holding all these plugins together with a fixed plan of execution. It pretty much combines the configuration that was thrown in by the user, with the power of all the selected plugins.

Today, Webpack can also work without plugins or a configuration. At least in theory. In practice, every project that goes beyond some simple examples will require a bit of configuration. Also, interesting...

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Florian Rappl

Florian Rappl is a solution architect working on distributed web applications for digital transformation and IoT projects. His main interest lies in the implementation of micro frontends and their impact on teams and business models. As the lead architect he helped to create outstanding web applications for many industry leading companies. He regularly gives lectures on software design patterns and web development. Florian won multiple prizes for his work over the years and is recognized as a Microsoft MVP for development technologies. He started his career in software engineering before studying physics and helping to build an energy-efficient supercomputer. Florian currently lives in Munich, Germany, with his wife and two daughters.
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