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> But of course, you can continue to use whatever other tools you like: Beef up your dev experience (Babel, TypeScript) or optimize how you ship in production (Webpack, Rollup).

So I assume what one would end up with if they decided to us pika for their dependencies is a project that still uses webpack, but in addition uses pika instead of webpack for dependencies, ending up making pika 1 more build tool in the chain instead of a replacement.

Is that a right assumption?



No, the idea is that the dependencies are cached in js in the frontend and not loaded all dynamically by routers and SSR. Basically routers are gone, no need for rebuild all the time. I think it’s a more optimized approach it’s less overhead inicial loading and we can load css in a more native way it makes more sense then the current build env we have.


Routers?


That's how js devs call the logic matching urls to views


> Is that a right assumption?

I believe so, assuming that you're using Webpack for more than just bundling. In other words, it removes the need for a bundler but not other processes you might want in your build system.


Depends on your browser targets-- but, yes, most likely. Personally I'm using pika with some of my electron apps-- and I love it for that.




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