Development status Active | Written in JavaScript | |
Developer(s) Tobias Koppers, Sean Larkin, Johannes Ewald, Juho Vepsäläinen, Kees Kluskens and Webpack contributors Initial release Mar 10, 2012 (Mar 10, 2012) Stable release 2.2.1 / January 31, 2017; 2 months ago (2017-01-31) Repository github.com/webpack/webpack | ||
Webpack is an open-source JavaScript module bundler. Webpack takes modules with dependencies and generates static assets representing those modules. It takes the dependencies and generates a dependency graph allowing you to use a modular approach for your web application development purposes. The bundler can be used from the command line, or can be configured using a config file which is named webpack.config.js.
You will need node.js for installing webpack. Another important aspect about webpack is that it is highly extensible by the use of loaders. Loaders allow you to write custom tasks that you want to perform when bundling files together.
Webpack provides code on demand using the moniker code splitting. The Technical Committee 39 for ECMAScript is working on standardization of a function that loads additional code: proposal-dynamic-import.