Webpack: React.js Task Manager

The following are popular Node task managers:

1. Grunt
2. Gulp
3. Browserify
4. Webpack

Among them, grunt is my favorite, but it is relative old. For ReactJS which use ES6 + JSX, some new concepts are involved, Webpack is 1 of them.

Webpack is the task manager of react-start-kit, the React full-stack package. (React Starter Kit — a skeleton of an “isomorphic” web application / SPA built with React.js, Express, Flux, ES6+, JSX, Babel, PostCSS, Webpack, BrowserSync.) When run npm start, babel will call Webpack, to run the build processing and watch the live updating, see the tools folder. It is not a clear way to do the build, deploy and monitoring, but it makes the task powerful and supports ES6 and JSX.

Reference: Introduction to Webpack