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Given I'm a first time author I've done my fair share of mistakes with SurviveJS - Webpack and React. It was an attempt to change the direction of my career. Being a subcontractor's subcontractor provides income, sure, but was a dead end for me with no room to grow in an economy that keeps getting tougher. Interestingly the book has garnered a lot of attention and I believe some have found it useful. It has been bit of a disaster economically and it's hard to imagine I could keep a business like this up for long if something doesn't change.
The first steps towards the book were taken at the end of January. I happened upon [a blog post about Webpack by Christian Alfoni](https://christianalfoni.github.io/javascript/2014/12/13/did-you-know-webpack-and-react-is-awesome.htm