We sit down with Tobias Koppers of webpack fame to talk about his life as a full-time maintainer of one of the most highly used (4 million+ dependent repos!) and influential tools in all of the web. Things we ask Tobias include: how he got here, how he pa... (more…)

One of the signature features of webpack is its use of the “dependency graph” to manage and bundle assets. However, each resource that is loaded into webpack must be treated as JavaScript. Until now. (more…)

Much has been said about Webpack but I constantly come across people who are unaware, not only of its existence but of its actual purpose… (more…)

It’s not hyperbole to say that Segment would not exist, if not for open source. We’re heavy users of Kafka, Redis, Terraform, Docker, Golang, and Node.js, just to name a few of the tools we use. And we literally got our start as an open source library lau... (more…)

One of Webpack’s most impressive features is called tree shaking, a technique that it uses to reduce the size of your javascript bundle. (more…)