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Especially if webpack doesn't bundle as you want it to, how would you proceed to find the bug (for sure) in your configuration?

In the last panel I attended at BR, after telling us how webpack works (everything is a plugin), you shared that if you could rewrite webpack, you would rewrite how plugins work. Did that happen after Webpack 2? :)

Javascript project configuration often requires a substantial mastery of Webpack, Babeljs, etc. and still you often run into limitations hard to overcome and end up in stale github issues - which is causing Javascript fatique.

Boilerplates like create-react-app exist to help beginners and also advanced programmers to keep the configuration complexity and frustration low and provide reasonable defaults so people can focus on their project instead of solving configuration issues. Boilerplates often use webpack under the hood but project requirements often require to eject and you have to deal the full configuration complexity and sometimes time consuming or hard to solve issues again.

Bundlers like Parcel https://parceljs.org/ use sensible default configurations and auto detection of configuration parameters to reduce the configuration complexity and entry barrier while not limiting the configurability. Is there something similar planned for Webpack?

How is it possible to break up your WebAssembly module into several modules that import each other similar to ES modules? For example the analogous code in Javascript with ES modules would be sth like this:

a.js: export const a = 3;
b.js: import { a } from './a'

How would that be solved inside the WASM module itself vs. how would that be solved on the Javascript side? Could you sketch some example code how to best approach this problem? Would the result be shipped as a single wasm file or multiple?

How will Webpack deal with CSS files now and in the future? Will we be able to split the CSS modules code just like the Javascript modules and load the ones not needed at initial rendering async on demand?