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webpack vs electron-forge
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karl.jakober [7:13 AM]
looking for a good alternative to webview.ContentWindow.postMessage for electron, people are saying webview.send is a good alternative, but that requires ipc to be invoked inside the webview itself
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marshallofsound [7:51 AM]
There are a few reasons people use `webpack`
1. Bundling commonjs deps for web usage
2. HMR
3. A fast dev flow (rebuilding and watching)
4. Adds support for things like LESS through loaders
These are counteracted during Electron development like so
1. Electron supports a full commonjs environment, you don't need to bundle
2. HMR --> This is missing from Electron dev flows, it's something I keep coming back to every now and again
3. With `-forge` you simply reload and everything that needs to gets "rebuilt", you don't even realize stuff is being built
4. `-forge` has built in support for a whole bunch of syntax's such as LESS, Typescript, ES6/7, Vue templates and so on
The only major thing missing that you get from webpack is HMR
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