“Plugins, loaders, long build times. Fuck all this shit”.

Henry was frustrated. All he desired was to do be up to date with the newest and sexiest technologies out there. He normally used Gulp for his personal projects but his latest one was meant to be an open source project so, not wanting to appear out of the zeitgeist, he opted to use Webpack instead.

It would be a node package. He had a grand vision for it and wanted everyone to use his tool but roadblocks were already in place. It had been two long hours and all he had to show for it was a dependency list filled with countless packages that Webpack needed and a kludge of a build configuration, half of which he had already forgotten the function of.



He didn’t like how this was starting out. It’s as if Webpack had been teasing him with noncommittal promises of productivity while keeping him from even touching his own package, the whole purpose of this exercise. How other JS developers dealt with this was a mystery to him.