3 HN users recommended this tutorial4 months2015–2017score 5.5
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
Commenters credit it with opening their eyes to JSPM and using it to choose build systems.
A short screencast tour of JSPM, SystemJS and ES6 features, building a small app with the then-new JavaScript module and package tooling. It shows how JSPM works as a package manager, bundler and loader.
“This video really opened my eyes to what it could do” (HN, 2016)
I regularly use JSPM (with systemJS) for new projects, and I've liked it a lot. Back when webpack first came out, I struggled a little bit with figuring out what it actually did. While I understand now, I am not why I would want to (or you) switch from JSPM to webpack. I don't see any features that webpack has that JSPM doesn't (and JSPM offered ES6 support well before of course, with babel on by default). I like to use JSPM because of how relatively easy everything fits together -- and how straightforward it is to use and configure. For those not familiar, JSPM is a package manager, module bundler, and module loader all in one for javascript applications. This means you can: jspm install <package> And JSPM will look in NPM/Github (and it's possible to add registries, like bower) for stuff . That's the package management facet. jspm bundle-sfx js/main dist/build.js Bundle your code all together, and drop it in a file <import src="system.js"> <script> // set our baseURL reference path System.config({ baseURL: '/app' }); // loads /app/main.js System.import('main.js'); </script> Load your modules on the fly like you would with something like RequireJS. As you may have guessed, JSPM relies on SystemJS ( [link] ) internally for some of the features above. This video really opened my eyes to what it could do: [this video]
Showed what JSPM can do as package manager, bundler and loader.
If you're looking for alternatives to Webpack, please also check out JSPM (a good short description might be "preprocessing system + package manager + systemjs"): [link] It takes a little more to get it to work with vue (the plugin that makes .vue files work is older and unsupported nowadays), but I use it just fine, with my template, styling and component files separated (I wrote a little thing: [link] ) If you dislike how complex webpack is, you'll like JSPM -- here's the video that got me hooked (it's pretty old but still valid): [this video]
Old but still valid video that got the commenter hooked on JSPM.
As if the churn wasn't already bad enough, I've recently started using JSPM[1] and it's pretty awesome. I'm writing ES6+ code with hot reloading react components. If you're trying to decide between build systems I would recommend checking it out, and watching this video[2] for a nice overview. [1] [link] [2] [this video]
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