Understanding the Complexity of Modern Web Dev Stack (Webpack, Babel, TypeScript, React)

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  • Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2024

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  • @menglin7432
    @menglin7432 4 месяца назад +12

    Now this is something I'd highly recommend any JS developer to watch

  • @lotharmohlala851
    @lotharmohlala851 2 года назад +110

    This is absolutely brilliant. Attaching a storyline to this was genius. This is how everyone learns; through context and use cases. Keep to this style of tutorials and this channel will sky rocket. Well done 💯

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  2 года назад +1

      Thanks Lothar!

    • @_SoundByte_
      @_SoundByte_ Год назад

      History in tech is important. Someone needs to do a video of the history of the internet (from a network point of view)

  • @brentleemans
    @brentleemans 11 месяцев назад +7

    Amazing video! With every part you explained WHY something was needed. This is missing in most of explanation videos on the internet. Thank you!

  • @marianrys316
    @marianrys316 3 года назад +35

    Great stuff! Thank you !
    In less than 30 min you fast-forwarded me from the 90's to modern era :)

  • @Speglritz
    @Speglritz 3 года назад +14

    We transpile typescript to javascript then transpile javascript to older versions of javasript for wider browser support and then the browers JIT compile the javascript it loads to run the actual code. Even without webpack, different loaders, webassembly and the other stuff going on it's complex enough.

  • @narayan1509
    @narayan1509 2 года назад +4

    One of the best video I come across while searching for basics

  • @johnphillips8600
    @johnphillips8600 3 года назад +14

    This is the best explanation I've come across... Most videos are too long and too minified.
    Thank you for this ❤️

  • @paperC_CSGO
    @paperC_CSGO 9 месяцев назад +2

    The video I have been looking for as a junior developer - to actually try and understand the bigger picture and fundementals. Please make more of these type of videos! You are hitting a much neglected part of the web development RUclips tutorial/course/explainer videos market!

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  9 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you! I'l do my best, glad it helped you, good luck!!

  • @pkproductions1623
    @pkproductions1623 Год назад +5

    This video is awesome. In just 25 minutes you explained the whole modern javascript paradox. How a simple button click in JavaScript is evolved to be so complex. Thanks a lot it made me understand concepts that are very confusing.

  • @soumyasagar2305
    @soumyasagar2305 5 дней назад

    Never had I understood babel soo deeply. Kudos to you man!!

  • @贺彦文
    @贺彦文 11 месяцев назад +1

    This video is really helpful to me. When I dive into Huge numbers of libraries from single page with HTML CSS JS. it really drive me crazy. But thank your sharing. I understand a lot and get a clearness feel.

  • @ДаниелДианов
    @ДаниелДианов 9 дней назад

    Thank you for sharing this. I find it very informative for every new developer to understand where all things came from and why it evolved that way.

  • @jfsimard2
    @jfsimard2 Год назад +1

    Rare you can have a history Today. Big picture is always forgotten making if difficult to get clarity. Thank you for taking the time to do it.

  • @uchihai_a_h4871
    @uchihai_a_h4871 11 месяцев назад +1

    now finally all the dots got connected... brilliant mate !

  • @aashisrimal7379
    @aashisrimal7379 3 года назад +6

    Great video on how modern web development has evolved.

  • @XpressBits
    @XpressBits 8 месяцев назад

    Best tutorial watched in the recent days.. Precise and no BS... you got a great teaching skills, mate! Please keep doing the videos..

  • @MoizAli-eh9gv
    @MoizAli-eh9gv 11 месяцев назад +1

    a beginner learning this. Honestly great video

  • @michaelhashimoto1650
    @michaelhashimoto1650 Год назад +1

    This is amazing.. front end is so crazy…. Thanks for bridging the gap!

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  Год назад +2

      Give m a like/sub, announcement soon but I'm going to be making a course/book going way deeper on frontend tooling!

  • @okamianimes8190
    @okamianimes8190 11 месяцев назад +1

    this is just beautiful, i had a lot of troubles understanding what webpack, babel were, and where are they exactly used, but this video just puts everything together in a brilliant way, thank you for the video

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  11 месяцев назад +1

      No problem, glad you found it useful!

  • @AkshyatChapagain
    @AkshyatChapagain 4 месяца назад +2

    Just amazing, every new person getting into web dev should watch this video. I can't believe you don't have more subscribers.

  • @gionatha3747
    @gionatha3747 11 месяцев назад +1

    Fantastic video!

  • @michaelvigato3228
    @michaelvigato3228 3 года назад +12

    Man this content is plain and simply amazing

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  3 года назад +2

      thanks for the praise Michael, I appreciate it. also, the comments help me know what kind of content people like to see.

  • @user-tt6nc6mo7k
    @user-tt6nc6mo7k 3 года назад +9

    This really confused me too when I started learning web development. Now I have a great resource to refer to other people thanks!
    On another note, I see you have a few videos on testing using Jest, Cypress, etc. I personally am quite new to testing I understand there are different types of tests like unit testing, integration testing and end to end tests. I know what each of them are but I do not understand how they all come together in one project? Would be great if you could do a similar overview type video on how all these are implemented in a production application.

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  3 года назад +3

      Yeah this stuff is confusing - there is way more tools in the average project too, but this is the general idea.
      Sure, I will definitely do more content around all the different types of testing... great suggestion. One of my favorite topics.

  • @Usmankhaled
    @Usmankhaled 8 месяцев назад +2

    Absolutely brilliant. Seems like you witnessed everything as if you yourself was a kernel routing and directing every piece to work together just like that :)

  •  Год назад

    I'm honestly impressed with how good this was to give and idea about how we ended up using all of these tools in the modern web development. Thanks for your effort!

  • @wattsfield1889
    @wattsfield1889 3 месяца назад

    Great vid! Love how you went on the whole journey from just html to more.

  • @reralt
    @reralt 9 месяцев назад

    This was so good. All the confusion regarding modern web cleared in one video ! Thanks a lot.

  • @chubbycat9212
    @chubbycat9212 2 года назад +2

    This is the best explanation I've come across

  • @vitaliyd23
    @vitaliyd23 5 месяцев назад

    What a gem! Love that you included the error solving parts and the "single take" nature of the video. Liked, subscribed, and added to a playlist)

  • @opsJson_
    @opsJson_ Год назад +2

    Congratulations from Brazil. content like this is very rare, i'm subscribing.

  • @jordantseng8330
    @jordantseng8330 Год назад +1

    god tier explanation

  • @abuzarbaig3116
    @abuzarbaig3116 Год назад

    Great & short Video that explains what's going behind the scenes with modern web dev, Thanks 😊

  • @deveshprasad6418
    @deveshprasad6418 5 месяцев назад

    This is amazing. You're a genius. You made it so easy to understand.

  • @johnas3
    @johnas3 2 года назад +1

    Bro you are now my new history teacher. Great work and thanks for the explanation🔥

  • @GoatCS
    @GoatCS 9 месяцев назад +1

    This is why WordPress is so popular. Running SQL HTML PHP and sometimes JavaScript and you don't even know it.

  • @senayb3
    @senayb3 2 месяца назад

    Great run through!! Helps wrap my head around things.

  • @davevids95
    @davevids95 3 года назад +2

    This is the explanation I've been looking for!! Subscribed!

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  3 года назад +1

      Thanks! I'll try to make more videos about tooling in the future.

  • @shinobi1975
    @shinobi1975 6 месяцев назад

    Finally someone that explains the problem that is being solved by these stupid installs lol. 10/10 vid.

  • @kerimzunic
    @kerimzunic 5 месяцев назад

    I'm glad this video exists

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  5 месяцев назад

      thanks I am glad you exist and watched it!

  • @zalabhaskar9795
    @zalabhaskar9795 8 месяцев назад

    You have nicely explained in simple way with good example. Thank you.😊

  • @naveedalirehmani4135
    @naveedalirehmani4135 Год назад +1

    legacy code be like : Look what they need just to mimic a fraction of our power. 😃

  • @fogguy3838
    @fogguy3838 8 месяцев назад +1

    exactly what I was looking for, Thanks, great job

  • @micahtonning7967
    @micahtonning7967 4 месяца назад

    Thank you for creating this video. It was extremely helpful.

  • @mmkvhornet7522
    @mmkvhornet7522 Год назад +1

    I like your methodology , it's a very great and enjoyable learning experience !

  • @rajeev2127
    @rajeev2127 Год назад

    You nailed it!!! Finally I understood, Thank you so much from the heart, you're awesome

  • @jhonyortiz5
    @jhonyortiz5 Год назад

    This entertaining and very eye opening when it comes to the past couple decades of web development. I hate when people use simple examples that have been simplified so much that they don't represent reality anymore. But your example was as simple as it needed to be but no more. It's really cool to see how it all really works and how it came together.

  • @taaaaaaay
    @taaaaaaay 3 года назад +1

    Thanks for the 20 minute headache :)
    No but really, this made it so much easier to understand what tf is going on.

  • @needtubes121
    @needtubes121 Год назад

    thanks for explaining all this from basics.

  • @siddharthnayak4448
    @siddharthnayak4448 2 года назад

    Excellent video explaining the history and transition to modern js libraries.Superb!!!!!!

  • @marcialabrahantes3369
    @marcialabrahantes3369 2 месяца назад

    webpack was built FOR react. aside from that, great content
    we've been building on complicated frontends for a while before webpack

  • @almuhanadal-nihmy7452
    @almuhanadal-nihmy7452 Год назад

    Great explanation. Thanks
    I hope you do more videos about tooling. It's really helpful

  • @YoussefAdelWahba
    @YoussefAdelWahba 2 месяца назад

    thank you, this is extremely helpful and clear.

  • @andriopratama6587
    @andriopratama6587 2 года назад +1

    Awesome! Thank you for the explanation and case study

  • @rioredwards
    @rioredwards 5 месяцев назад

    This was awesome! Thank you for making this!

  • @longb1913
    @longb1913 2 года назад +3

    3k views wtf... u need to be recognised

  • @DjSeymur
    @DjSeymur 2 года назад +1

    Superb explanation! Thanks a lot for this 🙌

  • @NoName-tt9ye
    @NoName-tt9ye 3 месяца назад

    Great video, I really like the flow of it

  • @thequang9234
    @thequang9234 Год назад +1

    with a bit of luck, this is one of the coolest video i've ever watched :)

  • @universalkittii
    @universalkittii 2 года назад +1

    This was very helpful thank you for making this!

  • @apereiracv
    @apereiracv 2 года назад

    Amazing explanation, love the approach and evolution of the code, great stuff

  • @theisaacmoses
    @theisaacmoses Год назад +1

    Pure awesomeness 😍

  • @aidanwelch4763
    @aidanwelch4763 7 месяцев назад +1

    There's so much worse it can be with SASS, handlebars, WASM, and so much extra complexity you can add on top lol

  • @austincodes
    @austincodes Год назад +1

    And this is just the top of the iceberg

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  Год назад +3

      Damn straight, below lies dragons
      Maybe I should make an iceberg video on JS tooling!

  • @slahomar1497
    @slahomar1497 Год назад

    that is the best video I watched in my life

  • @AnthonyObi-wr6ro
    @AnthonyObi-wr6ro Год назад

    All your tutorials are always fast pace that it becomes hard for one to follow your pace

  • @bhavyabansal1143
    @bhavyabansal1143 3 года назад +2

    I became your fan in just 26 minutes and 41 seconds....

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  3 года назад +1

      Hey, thanks for the praise!
      Any other kind of videos you would like to see? Trying to find a good direction for my content and channel 🤔

    • @bhavyabansal1143
      @bhavyabansal1143 3 года назад +1

      @@LachlanMiller if you ask me, I will say that given there are lot of tools out there like your video has explained, it will be good if you can make individual in depth videos of each tool and explain different configurations and what they are used for. I am happy to help as I am also learning these things and there is lot to learn out there.

    • @bhavyabansal1143
      @bhavyabansal1143 3 года назад +1

      @@LachlanMiller just sent you request on LinkedIn. Let’s connect.

  • @bakaleisanich
    @bakaleisanich 3 года назад +1

    Thank you! More course React!!!

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  3 года назад

      Main focus is around Vue, but definitely could look into some more generic tutorials on concepts that apply to both React and Vue.

  • @makealemonade
    @makealemonade 8 месяцев назад

    My brain is thanking you.

  • @kashnigahbaruda
    @kashnigahbaruda 3 года назад +2

    As a newbie this was great. Struggled today with some jest testing presets and had absolutely no idea what was going on. I think I solved it because the error went away but I am worried the test was just skipped. Luckily I have no idea how to check which tests was skipped or not so I can go to bed without worry.

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  3 года назад

      Glad you got it working - skipping a test is never ideal, might be good to find out why it's failing lol. Sleep tight

    • @kashnigahbaruda
      @kashnigahbaruda 3 года назад

      @@LachlanMiller turns out it was marked with test.skip(...). All greens.

  • @CyberCass2000
    @CyberCass2000 Год назад

    This is just amazing, hat off to you!

  • @fnfal113
    @fnfal113 Год назад +1

    welcome to js land where people over engineer stuffs for convenience

  • @oscardasilva971
    @oscardasilva971 2 года назад +1

    This is just one of the web development tutorials I have ever seen, Why don't everybody create tutorials like that?

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  2 года назад +1

      Many people don't understand it all haha

  • @edwinquinonespardo4768
    @edwinquinonespardo4768 2 года назад +1

    Amazing

  • @alextonev4145
    @alextonev4145 2 года назад

    Simply amazing. Thank you so much.

  • @jimbrannlund4677
    @jimbrannlund4677 2 года назад

    This was AWESOME! Thank you!

  • @KousayJebir
    @KousayJebir 4 месяца назад

    awesome video man ! i do have a quick question tho , when you reached the part of using react and imported React from 'react' what tool was responsible to resolve the location of 'react' or to be more precise the actual location of the file that contains the React object

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  4 месяца назад +1

      Whatever runtime you are using will resolve modules using its own pre-determined rules. In this video the runtime is Node.js. You can google "node.js module resolution algorithm" or read here. nodejs.org/api/modules.html#loading-from-node_modules-folders
      In Node.js if the import is not a relative path, it will look in `node_modules` and then find the `package.json` for the module. In there it looks at specific fields like "main", etc.

    • @KousayJebir
      @KousayJebir 4 месяца назад

      @@LachlanMiller thank you very much

  • @NomanKhan-pi2dc
    @NomanKhan-pi2dc Год назад

    When i see a guy using vim, I just assume that he is a godly tier developer. Once more I was proved right

  • @webb-developer
    @webb-developer Год назад

    this is amazing . thank you

  • @squarerootof2
    @squarerootof2 2 года назад +1

    hilarious and brilliant!!!

  • @udonjijiwaiwai935
    @udonjijiwaiwai935 2 года назад

    This is great and very helpful! Thank you!

  • @imheretohelp2075
    @imheretohelp2075 2 года назад

    very good content, pedagogically supreme

  • @mr_bolnik7534
    @mr_bolnik7534 27 дней назад

    Briliant video . Thnx

  • @dipanshuikey6650
    @dipanshuikey6650 9 месяцев назад +1

    great video 🔥

  • @topsy_kreds
    @topsy_kreds Год назад +1

    Excellent

  • @RikThePixel
    @RikThePixel 2 года назад +2

    I would like to see how server-side JavaScript comes into play with this 😂

  • @AiwwwA
    @AiwwwA Год назад

    Best explanation

  • @rossli8621
    @rossli8621 11 месяцев назад

    This is treasure!

  • @letscode4277
    @letscode4277 3 месяца назад

    any updates with the book? I've been waiting for it since i subscribed

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  3 месяца назад

      I'm sorry I haven't been active in this regard. I ended up going back to study part-time and content creation, my hobby, has taken a bit of a back seat.
      I might just aim for some more videos in the interim... any particular topic that fascinates you, that'd you like to know more about?

  • @oleksandraokhotnykova8672
    @oleksandraokhotnykova8672 6 месяцев назад

    "We're not sane, we're INSANE, we're modern web developers" LMAOOO

  • @dimitriborgers9800
    @dimitriborgers9800 4 месяца назад

    One question: if webpack bundles everything (including third party modules) into bundle.js, doesn't that ever get too big for the browser? The Gatsby library has 1200+ modules; I would assume the bundle.js would be absolutely massive.

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  4 месяца назад

      You can load modules async, so the initial bundle isn't huge. But yes, some libs have really huge bundles - I do not think there is any upper limit, I have worked on apps with 20mb of JS. This takes a long time to parse in the browser. Things like gzip, minify, etc can make it a lot smaller.

  • @learncodeinbangla9181
    @learncodeinbangla9181 2 года назад

    It's really awesome things to me. Thanks a lot.

  • @laithdrebaty6709
    @laithdrebaty6709 Год назад

    Great video, thanks a lot!

  • @HejaBibani-u9z
    @HejaBibani-u9z 17 дней назад

    thank you sir

  • @JosephLKausi
    @JosephLKausi Год назад

    Just awesome

  • @codybontecou
    @codybontecou 3 года назад +1

    If given the choice, would you support ES5? It seems a lot of this complexity comes from supporting old browsers.

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  3 года назад +1

      Depends, last job I worked we had a lot of users on IE11 (hospitals) so we just used babel to target es5. Nowdays browsers can actually load es modules natively via , so depending on your project you might not even need webpack, just a simple typescript build that exports modules, but I think a pre-configured setup (vue cli, create react app) is probbly the way to go.

  • @sangilyun234
    @sangilyun234 3 года назад +5

    25:25
    Can’t relate more

  • @anudeepreddy1027
    @anudeepreddy1027 11 месяцев назад +2

    Bro casually flexing his VIM skills

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  11 месяцев назад +1

      I'm very much an average Vim user - always learning new things!
      Although nowadays I'm using VS Code with the Vim plugin.

    • @LachlanMiller
      @LachlanMiller  11 месяцев назад +1

      Why? I am tired of configuring Vim!

  • @roronoa_d_law1075
    @roronoa_d_law1075 Год назад

    10:37 I don't understand why webpack is needed here if the improvement is to export createElement and import it in index.js. It's impossible to to do this without webpack?

  • @avimonnudash1762
    @avimonnudash1762 6 месяцев назад

    Beautiful

  • @jpmohan96
    @jpmohan96 3 года назад +1

    Incredible 👌