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THE VIDEO SHELF · javascript build tooling

Javascript in 2015

A short screencast tour of JSPM, SystemJS and ES6 features, building a small app with the then-new JavaScript module and package tooling. It shows how JSPM works as a package manager, bundler and loader.

Why HN readers recommended it

Commenters credit it with opening their eyes to JSPM and using it to choose build systems.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Glen Maddern
Topic
javascript build tooling
Format
tutorial
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2015–2017

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • My favourite way is via JSPM and live-server. I got into that after watching this amazing dev video: [VIDEO]

    mrspeaker on Hacker News · 2015-04
    In Deploying ECMAScript 6
  • I regularly use JSPM (with systemJS) for new projects, and I've liked it a lot. Back when webpack first came out, I struggled a little bit with figuring out what it actually did. While I understand now, I am not why I would want to …

    hardwaresofton on Hacker News · 2016-02
    In What's New in Webpack 2
  • If you're looking for alternatives to Webpack, please also check out JSPM (a good short description might be "preprocessing system + package manager + systemjs"): [LINK] It takes a little more to get it to work with vue (the plugin that makes .vue files work …

    hardwaresofton on Hacker News · 2017-08
    In Vue.js and Brunch: Webpack Alternative

Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.