Web workers, which we already took a look at in a previous post, are very useful for parallelizing long-running CPU-bound work client-side so it doesn't freeze up a website while it's running. If you're using Webpack, you have the option of compiling your worker script as a separate bundle using the worker loader.
Read more →Webpack is an awesome tool for building and bundling your web assets, and I've used it in all of my web projects for a couple of years now. Although it's possible to use just Webpack and nothing else for your client-side builds, I've found that using it with a task runner like Gulp gives you the most flexibility and helps to keep your build pipeline as simple as possible.
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