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Vite is a frontend build tool like webpack. Instead of bundling development assets, Vite serves native ES modules transpiled with esbuild from the dev server. This means there’s a lot less bundling to do, and results in a very fast developer experience.

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As a predominantly Laravel developer that is accustomed to Laravel Mix, I wanted to see how to get Tailwind's JIT compiler working with Laravel Mix, and was pleasantly surprised that it was quite simple and just works.

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Mahak Narayan Singh explains how Babel does it's job.

Have you ever thought how this awesome tool which you use in your daily life works under the hood? How does compilers you use in our daily life work? Do you need your own customized compilation? You should find this article beneficial then.

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For various reasons we recently switched from using Laravel Elixir to Webpack. My colleague Sebastian was in charge of this migration. He shares his experiences in the very first post on his new blog.

Over the past few weeks I've been migrating our asset pipeline at Spatie from Laravel Elixir (a gulp wrapper) to webpack. Between having endless possibilities, the occasional incomplete section in the docs, and the fact that everyone has slightly different needs for their asset pipeline (which makes examples hard), it has surely been an adventure. I'm going to do a quick summary of my goals, and how I achieved them with webpack. Hopefully there will be some useful snippets in here for when you're setting up your own webpack configuration.

If want to read a more introductory article on the subject check out this post by Samantha Geitz.

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I know what you’re thinking. WAT?! Didn’t Gulp just kill Grunt? Why can’t we just be content for a few minutes here in JavaScript land? I hear ya, but… I’ve found Gulp and Grunt to be unnecessary abstractions. npm scripts are plenty powerful and often easier to live with.

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Maxime Fabre wrote a comprehensive tutorial on Webpack on the madewithlove-blog.

... Is Webpack a build system or a module bundler? Well, it's both– and by this I don't mean that it does both I mean that it combines both. Webpack doesn't build your assets, and then separately bundle your modules, it considers your assets to be modules themselves.

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