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Sean Larkin, core team member of Webpack, will be leaving his current job at Mutual of Omaha for a new position at Microsoft. Because on his team he was the one most familiar with the webpack setup of the project, he looked for a way to transfer his knowledge. He landed on creating a video course on webpack that's free for everyone.

I decided to create Webpack Academy, a training and educational platform for those wanting to learn more about webpack. This was a perfect way to not only allow me to give back to my team — by giving them free access to all of the content — but to also benefit the community by sharing it with everyone.

https://webpack.academy/

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In a new post on his blog Sebastian De Deyne, multi disciplinary wizard at Spatie, explains how to set up TypeScript in a typical Laravel app.

In a recent Spatie project we decided to give TypeScript a shot for the business critical part of a new application. TypeScript provides static analysis to reduce the chance of introducing bugs, to have self-documenting code, and to improve our tooling (autocompletion!)

Adding TypeScript support is pretty straight forward and is done in three steps: install the necessary dependencies, configure TypeScript, and finally configure Laravel Mix.

https://sebastiandedeyne.com/posts/2017/typescript-with-laravel-mix

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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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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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