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Vote and Prioritize

This mini-application allows you to browse and vote on new features for webpack. Log in with your GitHub credentials and you will notice that you have a certain amount of points/influence that can be used to vote for or against any of the features listed below. The following two sections describe the different types of influence and how they can be attained.

Influence  

Influence is a unit of measure based on time you have been a member on GitHub. However, from 2017 on you will recieve one influence per day.

Golden Influence  

Golden Influence is equal to 100 normal influence. Golden Influence is obtained by being a backer or sponsor on our Open Collective page.

  • [WEBPACK 5] Persistent cache
    Evaluate how webpack could cache intermediate results on disk. This will reduce the initial build time when restarting webpack. Status: Implemented as part of webpack 5

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  • [webpack 5] Improve Typescript experience
    We investigate into typescript loaders and try to improve the typescript integration. Include typings in the webpack package.

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  • [WEBPACK 5] Consistent Hashing
    Take a look at the hashing in webpack since some people have issues with it. Try to make hash equal even if the context folder changes. Write a documentation page for hashing to make it clear for all people.

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  • [IN PROGRESS] CSS as first-class citizen
    Add CSS as module type next to Javascript, WebAssembly, and other module types. This would make mini-css-extract-plugin, style-loader and css-loader obsolete and will provide the same experience out of the box. Existing loaders like sass-loader, postcss-loader can work on top of this. On long term this probably also allows more optimizations like full Tree Shaking for CSS Modules, better build performance, or even complex optimizations to reduce CSS. webpack may ship with an integrated CSS minimizer for production mode.

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  • Take care of style-loader, css-loader and other style-related loader
    Maintain these repos a little bit. Process issues, PRs and do relevant issues until these repos are in a up-to-date state. Status: Plan in place. css-loader refactored.

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  • [webpack 5] Take care of enhanced-resolve, tapable, watchpack and other dependencies of webpack
    Maintain these repos a little bit. Process issue and PRs and do relevant stuff until these repos are in a up-to-date state.

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  • New Analyse Tool
    Continue development of a new version of the analyse tool. Bring it into a working state, where it's possible for people to contribute custom tools/visualisations/hints.

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  • Improve SourceMaps
    Improve webpack support of SourceMaps, increase performance, document all kinds of SourceMap options in great detail.

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  • Documentation
    Concentrate on improving the documentation. Review all of the documentation to find issues.

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  • HTML as entrypoint
    Allow to use HTML files as entrypoint. Script tags are used to reference JS entrypoints. Other tags (i. e. img, link) are parsed as dependencies and will include referenced files as modules.

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  • [webpack 4] Build Performance
    Improve the build speed (focus on development mode), document how to improve build speed, add more profiling tools for build performance and loaders. Status: cache-loader created, thread-loader created. Performance improved. Development mode added.

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  • Zero Config Mode
    We create opinionated solution or cli capability for webpack. You don't need a config, and we'll make some opinionated decisions for you so you can "just code". (Inspired by ParcelJS)

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  • Scope Hoisting for WebAssembly
    Multiple WASM modules can be bundled together and will be optimized into a single WASM module per chunk.

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  • [webpack 4] Scope Hoisting
    Implement Rollup-Style scope hoisting. When multiple modules in a chunk use ES6 Modules to depend on each other, they are merged together and behave like a single module. Further optimization can be applied on such a merge module. Bonus: When the whole compilation is a single chunk with a single module as special output template is used which has no runtime (webpack 5). Credits to Rich Harris for the idea.

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  • Bring down the issue count
    Take care of many issues. Either close them or answer or decide what to do.

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  • Multi-Threading
    Compile using multiple CPUs, by using worker_threads. Potentially boosts initial builds.

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  • [webpack 5] Files/URLs as first-class modules
    Includes file-loader and url-loader logic into the core and support URL-referenced files (+ DataUrls) as first-class citizen.

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  • Typescript Tree Shaking
    Try to make Tree Shaking to work with Typescript classes. Status: Progress made in UglifyJs and TypeScript (pure annotation).

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  • ESM environment target
    When generating output files with multiple chunks, files need to communicate with each other somehow. In addition to that a technique to load other files is needed In the web this is done via JSONP and by adding script tag. In node.js this is done via require() and exports. WebWorkers use importScript and globals. ESM could be an new technique for this. Files can be loaded via import() and can communicate via export/import. One benefit would be that this technique can be shared by Web, Node.js and WebWorkers (ESM support for ServiceWorkers is work in progress). This could allow sharing files between webpage and worker, or allow files to be consumed by Web and Node.js.

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  • [webpack 5] Plugins for Stats
    Allow plugins to modify stats and stat output. I. e. add custom property or customize colors/messages.

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  • [In progress, experiment] Scope Hoisting for libraries
    Implement the bonus point for scope hoisting, which is a special mode without webpack runtime. This is only applicable if your modules reduce to a single scope-hoisted module.

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  • Custom proposals
    Create a new list with ideas, which can proposed by everybody. People can vote on these ideas to bring them to the top.

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  • Export as ESM and import via ESM
    Add support for output.libraryTarget: "module" which uses ESM export and import to expose or consume EcmaScript modules. While this is not always recommended for npm libraries (because bundling hinders some advanced optimizations like sideEffects), it can be suitable to consume a library via browser native ESM.

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  • [WEBPACK 5] Tree Shaking for CommonJS
    Support tree-shaking for a subset of statically analyse-able CommonJs. Tree Shaking can also work across ESM-CJS interop. This may improve bundle size when CommonJs libraries are used. Due to the dynamic nature of CommonJs this won't work for all modules, but at least modules transpiled from ESM are guaranteed to work.

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  • HMR for Module Federation
    Allow to use HMR in Module Federation between multiple containers.

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  • [webpack 4] Upgrade Code Style
    Starting at Dec 2016 Node.js 4 is the lowest supported Node.js version. This version allows to use classes and various ES2015 constructs. We update to existing code to use the new syntax, especially we update all files to use ES2015 class. This will improve readability of the source code.

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  • Blog post
    Write a blog post regarding some advanced webpack topic.

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  • Build performance
    Build performance has been improved a lot from webpack 3 to webpack 5. Vote for this if you are still not happy with build performance and want us to do more.

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  • [webpack 3] Performance Budgets
    Implement a warning when chunk size resp. entry point total size is bigger than a limit. This limit is configurable and only enabled in production.

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  • Answer 30 Questions on StackOverflow
    Write 30 Answers on Stack Overflow to most popular webpack questions.

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  • [WEBPACK 5] Integrated support for Workers
    Automatically handle syntax like new WebWorker(), ServiceWorkers and Worklets and process/optimize module graphs behind these constructs.

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  • [webpack 5] Improve Dead Code Elimination and inner graph analysis
    Make the module source code analysis smarter to help the minimizer to eliminate more dead code. This could include things like native methods (Math.sqrt, Object.defineProperty), or attaching properties to classes. This could also include optimizations for exporting object literals.

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  • Strict mode for native ESM compat
    When enabled it will display warnings for things that are not compatible with the ESM spec and might lead to problems with other bundlers, node or native browser capabilities.

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  • AMD to load chunks
    When creating an AMD library on-demand-loaded chunks could be loaded via AMD require() instead of JSONP. This way the runtime code for chunk loading could be reduced and no global variable is needed.

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