can you discuss Webpack a little more?

[kevinburke]

Hi there,
I was curious about this note in the README about webpack_build:

Making the experience of using webpack better within Dropbox was one of the reasons we wrote these rules.

Can you elaborate a little further on how it's made the experience of using Webpack better? Is it faster? Shorter restarts?

Thanks,
Kevin

[samertm]

Hey!

The wording in the README isn't clear. When I say that these rules made using webpack better at Dropbox, I'm comparing it to the pre-Bazel world where folks would have to run webpack locally and either check in the build files or push them to S3.