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Tung Nguyen
Tung Nguyen

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Distinguish Babel and Webpack

Sometimes I still confuse about Babel and Webpack, so I noted this for reference reason

Babel

  • Not all new feature of JS support by all browsers, Babel compile source code to version which can work on any browser

Webpack

  • It is a bundler for JS and static files. It packs many files, modules into a few files
  • It also has some function like code-splitting, lazyloads help make our's app more effective
  • It also allows we can write custom packing logic with "loader" plugin

Summary

Usually, in the modern web application, Babel and Webpack used together

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